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8
DEATHS.
On Table I, instructions are given by the Local Government
Board concerning the corrections necessary before arriving
at the net number of deaths belonging to the district. The
deaths of "non-residents" are to be subtracted from the total
registered in the district, and the deaths of "residents"
registered in public institutions beyond the district are to be
added. By the term "non-resident" is meant persons brought
into the district on account of sickness or infirmity and dying in
public institutions here. By the term "residents" is meant
persons who have been taken out of the district on account of
sickness or infirmity and died in public institutions elsewhere.
The "public institutions" to be taken into account for the
purposes of the Local Government Board Tables are those into
which persons are habitually received on account of sickness
or infirmity, such as hospitals, workhouses, and lunatic
asylums.
Five hundred and thirty-seven deaths were registered in
the district ; three of these were of persons belonging to other
districts, but only one non-resident died in a public institution,
leaving 536 as the total deaths belonging to, and registered in,
the district. This figure would correspond to a death rate of
10.7 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Hitherto, the deaths of "residents" registered in public
institutions beyond the district have not been included, but last
year the County Council made arrangements whereby a list
of these deaths was obtained by the County Medical Officer
of Health, who forwarded to the local Medical Officers of
Health particulars of the deaths belonging to the respective
districts.
For Poor Law purposes, this parish is included in the
Brentford Union, and 54 persons belonging to Acton died in the
Workhouse Infirmary.