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Hammersmith 1905

Sixth annual report year ended 31st March 1906

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Table: TABLE II. Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1905 and previous Years. BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.

TABLE II. Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1905 and previous Years. BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.

YearPopulation estimated to middle of each year.Births.Total Deaths Registered in the District.Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District.Deaths of Non-residents registered in Public Institutions in the District.Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions bevond the District.Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District.
Number.Rate.1Under i Year of Age.At all Ages.
Number.Rate per 1,000 Births registered.Number.Rate.*Number.Rate.*
12345678910111213
1895103211290928.2470162161215.6203142305177717.2
1896104551300728.8489163155614.9169111331177617.0
1897105959313929.6508162157014.8200139291172216.3
1898107370302628.2505167166915.5194123383192918.0
1899108785306128.1527172180216.6229152369201918.6
1900110203299427.2470157161714.7204140383186016.9
1901112631301926.8467155164614.6241168398187616.7
1902114210319227.94101281597i4.0246160435187216.4
1903115803298925.8374125132311.4207150434160713.9
1904117412314626.8459146163213.92631783591813I5.4
Averages for years 1895-1904110014304827.7468154160214.6216146369182516.6
1905119037311026.1414133141911.9245161385164313-8

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* Rates in Columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths to be included in 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 subtraction 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 for 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. A list of the Institutions in respect of the-deaths in
which corrections have been made should be given on the back of this Table.
Area of District in acres (exclusive of area covered by water) 2282.555
Total population at all ages 112,239
Number of inhabited houses 15,198
Average number of persons per house 7 4
At
Census
of 1901.
I.
Institutions within the District
receiving sick and infirm persons
from outside the District.
II.
Institutions outside the District
receiving sick and infirm persons
from this District.
III.
Other Institutions, the deaths in
which have been distributed
among the several localities
in the district.
West London Hospital
Nazareth House
Hammersmith Infirmary,
Ducane Road
St. John's Hospital for Skin
Diseases, Uxbridge Road
General Hospitals, Fulham Infirmary,
Workhouse and other
Public Institutions of a like
character.
London County Lunatic Asylums
and Metropolitan Imbecile
Asvlums
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Small Pox and Fever Hospitals.
The Convent of the Good
Shepherd
St. Mary'sOrphanage,St. Joseph's
School, Kensington & Chelsea
District School
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs
Is the Union Workhouse within the District? No, but one is being built.