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Carshalton Urban Sanitary District.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1894.
I.— Vital Statistics: Births and Deaths.
1. The population of the Parish in the middle of the year may be estimated at 5,600 persons.
2. The number of Births registered in the Parish during the year was 162, or four more than in the
previous year. The Birth-rate for the year, therefore, was 29.0 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
3. The number of Deaths registered in the Parish during the year was 74, to which must be added
seven deaths in the Epsom Workhouse of persons belonging to the Parish. These 81 deaths represent
an Annual Death-rate of 14.5 per 1,000 of the population, estimated as above.
In the other portions of the Surrey Combined Sanitary District the highest Birth-rate for the year
was 24.4, and the lowest was 20.0 ; whereas the highest Death-rate was 13.0, and the lowest was 9.4.
4. As to the Infant Mortality. The deaths of Infants under one year were 23 in number, and were
equal to 14 per cent, of the registered births, which is above their previous average rate in the parish.
5. The deaths from Pulmonary Consumption (2 in number) were at the rate of 0.4 per 1,000 of the
estimated population, and were below their previous average rate in the Parish.
6. The deaths from other Lung Diseases (Bronchitis, Pleurisy, and Pneumonia) were 14 in number,
and were at the rate of 2.5 per 1,000 of the estimated population, which is about their previous average
rate in the Parish.
(See also Tables I., II.. and V. at the end of the Report.)
II.—Summary of Sickness and Mortality from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases, and from the other Diseases which must be notified under
the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, and of the action
taken for preventing their spread.
1. No case of Small Po.v was reported during the year.
2. Measles were unusually prevalent and caused eight deaths.
3. Whooping Cough caused no death.
4. Scarlet Fever (otherwise called Scarlatina) was notified at six houses, viz.: in January at one in
Mill Lane and at one in St. James' Road, in February at one in North Street, in August in one at Batt's
Farm, in September at one on the Wrytlie, and in October at one in Mill Lane. There was only one
case in each house. Two of the illnesses were contracted out of the district and none of them ended
fatally. One of the sick was removed to the Wimbledon Local Board's Hospital, where she was declared not
to be suffering from the fever ; she was therefore discharged and went to her home in another district.
5. Diphtheria, Croup and Laryngitis. In August a child living at Wilton Terrace, Beddington
Corner, had an attack of Diphtheria which he probably contracted from a visitor in a neighbouring
cottage who had had it in London. No other case was notified. No case of Membranous Croup was
notified, and no death was attributed to Laryngitis