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Hammersmith 1906

Seventh annual report year ended 31st March 1907

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Table: TABLE I.Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1906 and Previous Years. BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.

TABLE I.Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1906 and Previous Years. BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.

Year.Population estimated to middle of each year.Births.Total Deaths Regis-tered in the District.Total Deaths in Pub-lic Institutions in the District.Deaths of Non-residents registered in Public Insti-tutions in the District.Deaths of Residents regis-tered in Public Institu-tions beyond the District.Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District.
Num-ber.Rate1Under 1 Year of Age.At all Ages.
Num-ber.Rate per 1,000 Births regis-tered.Num-ber.Rate*Num-ber.Rate.*
I2345678910111213
1896I0455I300728·8489163155614·9169111331177617·0
1897105959313929·6508162157014·8200139291172216·3
1898107370302628·2505167166915·5194123383192918·0
1899108785306128·1527172180216·6229152369201918·6
1900110203299427·2470157161714·7204140383186016·9
1901112631301926·8467155164614·6241168398187616·7
1902114210319227·9410128159714·0246160435187216·4
1903115803298925·8374125132311·4207150434160713·9
1904117412314626·8459146163213·9263178359181315·4
1905119037311026·1391126141911·9245161385164313·8
Averages for years 1896-1905111596306827·5460150158314·2219148376181116·3
1906120679302025·0418138159113·2394173355177314·7

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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.
West London Hospital
Nazareth House
Hammersmith Infirmary,
Ducane Road
St. John's Hospital for Skin
Diseases, Uxbridge Road
II.
Institutions outside the District
receiving sick and infirm persons
from this District.
General Hospitals, Fulham Infirmary,
Workhouse and other
Public Institutions of a like
character
London County Lunatic Asylums
and Metropolitan Imbecile
Asylums
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Small Pox and Fever Hospitals
III.
Other Institutions, the deaths
in which have been distributed
among the several localities in
the district.
The Convent of the Good Shepherd
St. Mary's Orphanage, St. Joseph's
School, Kensington & Chelsea
District School
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs
Is the Union Workhouse within the District ? The New Hammersmith Workhouse was opened last year