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CARSHALTON URBAN DISTRICT.
Medical Officer's Report for the year 1905.
I. Population, Births, and Deaths.

If the population had increased at the same rate since the last Census as in the previous ten years,
it would be about 7,400 in the middle of the year under review, but this estimate is probably too low, as
a considerable amount of building has taken place recently, especially to the south of the town, and the
population may be estimated at 7,500 in the middle of the year.
Births.—The Births registered in the district during the year were 193 in number, representing an
Annual Birth-rate of 25.7 per thousand of the estimated population, as against an average rate of 27 per
thousand for the previous ten years. The illegitimate births registered in the district were seven in
number, in addition to four illegitimate births among persons belonging to the district in the Epsom
Infirmary. The birth-rate for England and Wales, for the year, was 27.2.
Deaths.—The Deaths registered in the district during the year numbered 103, as against 117 in
the previous year. Seventy deaths occurred in the town, 9 in the Cottage Hospital, 22 in the Croydon
Rural Isolation Hospital, and 2 in the Home for Friendless Girls ; two of the persons who died in the
Cottage Hospital were parishioners of Carshalton, but the remaining 31 deaths in Institutions occurred
among patients belonging to other districts, and have to be deducted in estimating the death-rate.
Thirteen parishioners of Carshalton died in the Epsom Infirmary, one in the Cuddington Isolation
Hospital, and one in the Sutton Cottage Hospital; these 15 deaths in outside Institutions, added to the
72 deaths of parishioners in the district, give a nett total of 87 deaths, which represent an Annual
Death-rate of 11.6, as against a rate of 14.2 in the preceding year, and an average rate of
13.4 for the previous ten years. The death rate for England and Wales for the year was 15.2.
Causes of Death.—Two deaths were ascribed to Measles, 1 to Diphtheria, 2 to Influenza, 1 to
Diarrhoea, 4 to Phthisis, 13 to Bronchitis and Pneumonia, 8 to Cancer, and 1 each to Appendicitis and
Tetanus.
Infant Mortality.—The deaths of Infants under one year were 19 in number, and were at the rate
of 98 per thousand births, as against an average of 136 for the previous ten years, and a rate of 128 for
England and Wales for the year. One of the children, who died in the Home for Friendless Girls, did
not belong to the district, and two children belonging to the district died in January in the Epsom
Infirmary.
A new Table, in the form issued by the Local Government Board, giving the causes of death in
detail for each month under one year of age, will be found on page 10.
The District Council requested the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Sub-District to supply
me weekly with full copies of the certificates of births of children registered in the district. I was
thereby enabled to distribute in suitable cases copies of a card, supplied by the Surrey County Council,
upon the Feeding and Care of Infants, and I sent out 80 copies in all.
The Zymotic Death-rate for the year was 0.53 per thousand of the population.
II— Infectious Diseases.
There was no special outbreak of notifiable infectious disease at any time during the year.
Small Pox.—No case was reported.