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died without the district. Thus the number of deaths properly
attributable to the district was 529, which gives the death-rate for
the district of 12.6 per 1,000 of the population. Adopting the
basis of the population estimated by the Registrar-General, the
death rate for the district comes to 12.9 per 1,000. These figures
are comparable with the following figures:—14.0 for England and
14.3 for London.
Births.
The total number of births registered during the year was
934, but 50 of these did not belong to this district, while 8 births
properly belonging to this district occurred outside the district.
The nett number of births thus attributable to the district is 892,
giving a birth-rate of 203 per 1,000. The birth-rate of England
and Wales is 21.6 per 1,000. Adopting the population basis
suggested by the Registrar-General for the calculation of the birth
rate, this comes to 20.1 per 1,000.

Notification of Births Act, 1907.
The following figures give some idea of the work done under
the Notification of Births Act, 1907, during the year 1916.
The number of births notified during the year was 856 or
91.6% of the births registered, as compared with 89.7 % in 1915.