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during 1871-81, 41.5 per 1,000; and during the past ten
years the disproportionately large increase of 18,716
persons or 66.8 per 1,000 has taken place. The Subdistrict
contains 2,433 acres, and the enumerated population
therefore averaged 19.2 persons to the acre, in 1881
11 only. The inhabitants occupied 7,274 houses averaging
64 persons to each house; the number of inmates to
each house in 1881 was 6.5; in 1871 6.6; and in 1861 it
was 7.0 so that the sanitary disadvantages necessarily
arising from a greater density of population, appear to
have been to a considerable extent compensated by increased
house accommodation. Estimated from the recent
Census the mean population of the Sub-district
during the year 1890 was 45,284.
Births,
Birth-rate,
Rate of
Natural
Increase.
The total births registered during the year
1890 numbered 1412, 750 of males, 662 of
females. Allowing for increase of population,
the number is 15 less than the average ot the preceding
ten years. The birth-rate was 32.74 per 1,000, and the
rate of natural increase, or excess of births over deaths,
16.79 per 1,000 of the entire population.
Mortality.
The total deaths registered were 787 in
number, 350 of males and 437 of females, and were 55
more than the decennial average corrected for increase of
population. As in the year preceding 108 of the number
occurred in public institutions, viz.:—In the Middlesex
(formerly Surrey) County Lunatic Asylum 71; in the
Hospital for Incurables 19; in St. Peter's Hospital 2; in
the Workhouse 7; and in the Prison 9.
Causes of
Death.
In the following Table all the causes of
death are enumerated. They are classified
in accordance with the system adopted by the RegistrarGeneral,
showing the age at death at eight periods with
the number, sex and social position of the deceased, and
particularizing the several diseases of the Zymotic class:—