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Number of People to the acre.—The area of the Parish amounts to
639 acres, and this, divided among the parishioners, represents 55.1
people to the acre, as against 61.4 m London generally.
The area of the Northern Division amounts to 440 acres, and the
estimate is only 29.3 people to the acre.
The area of the Southern Division amounts to 199 acres, and the
estimate is 112.0 people to the acre.
It will be noted that owing to the large open spaces in the
Northern Division the number of people to the acre is only about onefourth
that of the Southern Division.
Births—Birth-rate.—During the year 1900 there were 775 births
registered in the Parish; of these 378 were males, and 397 were
females. The birth-rate per 1,000 per annum, was therefore 22.0 as
against 22.6 for the preceding year, and 24.5 for 1898. The rate for
England and Wales was 28.9, that for London generally was 28.6
and that for the 33 great towns was 29.4.
The part which the rather low birth-rate plays in favouring the
low general death-rate of the Parish is duly accounted for in arriving
at the corrected death-rate.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality.—There were 355 deaths registered of parishioners
who were resident in the Parish, and 82 parishioners who
died in Public Institutions without the Parish, making a total of 437
deaths of parishioners. Of these deaths 241 were of females and
196 were of males.
The recorded general death-rate is therefore 12.4, as against 12.8
in the preceding year, and 13.6 in 1898. This ordinary death-rate,
however, cannot be taken as a true index of the healthiness of the
Parish, nor can it be justly compared with the rates of other Sanitary
areas, unless some allowance is made for the relative proportions
of males and females at different ages in the districts compared.