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Notes.—This Table is arranged to show the gross births and deaths in the district, and the births and
deaths properly belonging to it with the corresponding rates. For years before 1911 some of the corrected
rates probably will not be available. The rates should be calculated per 1000 of the estimated gross
population. In a district in which large Public Institutions for the sick or infirm seriously affect the
statistics, the rates in Columns 5 and 13 may be calculated on a nett population, obtained by deducting
from the estimated gross population the average number of inmates not belonging to the district in such
institutions.
* In Column 6 are to be included the whole of the deaths registered during the year as having
actually occurred within the district.
In Column 12 is to be entered the number in Column 6, corrected by subtraction of the number in
Column 8 and by addition of the number in Column 9. Deaths in Column 10 are to be similarly corrected
by subtraction of the deaths under 1, included in the number given in Column 8, and by addition of the
deaths under 1 included in the number given in Column 9.
+ The Medical Octicer of Health will be able from the returns made to him by the
local Registrar of Deaths to fill in Column 8 in accordance with the rule in the next
paragraph below. The Registrar-General, either directly or through the County
Medical Officer of Health, will supply the Medical Officer of Health with the particulars
of deaths to be entered in Column 9; and all such deaths must be included in this
Column, unless an error is detected, and its correction has been accepted by the
Registrar-General. For Column 4 the Registrar-General will furnish to the Medical
Officer of Health, a Statement of the number of births requiring to be added to or
subtracted from the total supplied by the local Registrar.
‡ " Transferable Deaths" are deaths of persons who, having a fixed or usual
residence in England or Wales, die in a district other than that in which they resided.
The deaths of persons without fixed or usual residence, casuals, must not be included in
Columns 8 or 9, except in certain instances under 3 (b) below. The Medical Officer of Health will state
in Column 8 the number of transferable deaths of "non-residents" which are to be deducted, and will
state in Column 9 the number of deaths of "residents" registered outside the district which are to be
added in calculating the nett death-rate of his district.
The following special cases arise as to Transferable Deaths :—
(1) Persons dying in Institutions for the sick and infirm, such as hospitals, lunatic asylums,
workhouses, and nursing homes (but not almshouses) must be regarded as residents of the district in which
they had a fixed or usual residence at the time of admission. If a person dying in an Institution had no
fixed residence at the time of admission, the death is not transferable. If the patient has been directly
transferred from one such institution to another, the death is transferable to the district of residence at
the time of admission to the first Institution.
(2) The deaths of infants born and dying within a year of birth in an Institution to which the
mother was admitted for her confinement should be referred to the district of fixed or usual residence of
fche parent.
(3j Deaths from Violence are to be referred (a) to the district of residence, under the general rule;
(£) it this district is unknown, or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the district where the accident
occurred, if known ; (c) failing this, to the district where death occurred, if known ; and [d) failing this, to
the district where the body was found.
Area of District in acres
(land and inland water) 660
Total population at all ages at Census of 1911. .66,404
Number of inhabited ordinary dwelling houses 6,115
Average number of persons per house 7.5