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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Heston and Isleworth 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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Table I.
Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1904 and previous years.
| Year. | Estimated Population to middle of year. | Births. | Total Deaths Regicterhd | Total Deaths in public institutions in District | Deaths of non-resid'ts regist'd in public instit j-tions in District | Deaths of residents regist'd in public institutions beyond District | Deaths at All Ages (Nett). | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under 1 year. | at all ages. | |||||||||||
| N'mber | Rate. | N'mber | Rate per 1000 births. | N'mber | Rate. * | N'mber | Rate. * | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1894 | 27,541 | 809 | 29 3 | 102 | 126.0 | 430 | 15.6 | ... | 76 | ... | 354 | 12.8 |
| 1895 | 27,895 | 862 | 30.9 | 108 | 125.0 | 564 | 20.1 | ... | 83 | ... | 481 | 17.2 |
| 1896 | 28,325 | 790 | 27.8 | 119 | 150.6 | 521 | 18.3 | ... | 110 | ... | 411 | 14.4 |
| 1897 | 28,765 | 729 | 25.3 | 96 | 131.6 | 491 | 17.0 | ... | 101 | ... | 390 | 13.5 |
| 1898 | 29,185 | 817 | 27.7 | 146 | 172.5 | 598 | 20.4 | 196 | 130 | ... | 468 | 16.0 |
| 1899 | 29,607 | 931 | 31.4 | 144 | 154.6 | 678 | 22.8 | 216 | 151 | ... | 527 | 17.7 |
| 1900 | 30,040 | 813 | 27.0 | 127 | 156.2 | 682 | 23.0 | 262 | 163 | ... | 529 | 176 |
| 1901 | 30,959 | 874 | 28.5 | 140 | 160.1 | 678 | 21.8 | 232 | 191 | ... | 487 | 15.7 |
| 1902 | 31,531 | 932 | 29.5 | 146 | 156.6 | 734 | 23.3 | 300 | 210 | ... | 524 | 16.6 |
| 1903 | 32,075 | 1055 | 32.8 | 104 | 98.5 | 634 | 19.7 | 262 | 179 | ... | 455 | 14.1 |
| Av. for '94-1903 | 29,592 | 861 | 29.0 | 123 | 143.2 | 601 | 20.2 | ... | 139 | ... | 462 | 15.6 |
| 1904 | 32,630 | 1057 | 32.3 | 179 | 169.3 | 750 | 22.9 | 290 | 200 | ... | 550 | 16.8 |
*Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1000 of estimated population.
Note. The deaths to be included m Column 7 of this table are the whole of those
registered during the year as having actually occurred within the district or division.
The deaths to be included in Column 12 are the number in Column 7, corrected by the
substraction of the number in Column 10 and the addition of the number in Column 11 .
By the term "Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account
of sickness or infirmity, and dying in public institutions there; and by the term "Residents"
is meant persons who have been taken out of the district on account of sickness or infirmity,
and have died in public institutions elsewhere.
The "Public institutions" to be taken into account or the purposes of these Tables
are those into which persons are habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity,
such as hospitals, workhouses and lunatic asylums. (These are ; Mogden Isolation Hospital,
Hounslow Hospital, Dockwell Smallpox Hospital, Union Infirmary, Isleworth, and
Wyke House Asylum).
Total population at all ages, 30,863.
Number of inhabited houses, 5,684.
Average number of persons per house, 5.4.
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) 6,859.
At Census of 1901.