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NOTES ON TABLES A AND B.
Note 1. Medical Officers of Health of " Combined Districts" must make a
separate Return for the District of each Sanitary Authority.
2. Medical Officers of Health acting for a portion only of the District
of a Sanitary Authority should write, in the heading of the
Table, the designation of the Division for which they act.
3. The words " Urban" "Rural" or " Metropolitan " must be inserted
in the appropriate space in the heading, according as the Sanitary
Authority for the District is Urban or Rural, or is within
the Metropolitan Area.
4. The "Localities" adopted for the purpose of these statistics should
be areas of known population ; such as parishes, groups of
parishes, townships or wards.
As stated at the head of the first column in each Table,
Public Institutions should be regarded as separate localities,
and the deaths in them should be separately recorded. Workhouses,
Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums, and other establishments
into which numbers of people, and especially of sick
people, are received, are Public Institutions for the purpose of
these statistics.
5. The deaths which have to be classified in this Table (A), and
summed up in the horizontal line of "Totals," are the whole of
those registered as having actually occurred in the several
localities comprised within the Division or District. But the
registered number of deaths frequently requires correction
before it can give an exact view of the mortality of a Division
or District; and the two lowest horizontal lines are provided
for the purpose of enabling Medical Officers of Health to indicate,
to the best of their ability, what the extent of such corrections
should be. Details concerning the corrective figures, eg.,
the institutions that have been considered, or the particular
localities to which corrections apply, may appear in the text of
the report or in supplementary tables.
Area and Population of the District or Division
to which this return relates.
Area in Acres 2,287
Population (1891) 97,237
In recording the facts under the various headings of Tables A and B, attention
has been given to the notes endorsed on the Tables.
N. C. COLLIER,
Medical Officer of Health.
May 2yd, 1894.