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The principal features of the vital statistics for the year have
been as follows:—
Estimated Population: 52,000.
Birth Rate: 29.5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death Rate: 13.2 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Infantile Mortality: 130 per 1,000 births.
Zymotic Death Rate: 2.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Respiratory Death Rate (excluding Phthisis): 2 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Phthisis Death Rate: .9 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death Rate from other forms of Tuberculosis: .5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The district, with an area of 2,304 acres, is about 3 miles in length,
and about 1½ miles wide. It is irregularly quadrangular in shape. It is
bounded on the north by Willesden, on the east by Hammersmith, on
the south by Chiswick, and on the west by Ealing.
For Poor-law purposes, the parish forms part of the Brentford
Union, and for Parliamentary purposes, it is within the Ealing division
of Middlesex. For municipal purposes, the district is divided into
four wards, North-East, North-West, South-East and South-West.
The underlying stratum of the district is London clay, 200 to 300
feet thick, with a slightly southerly dip. This clay forms the exposed
surface over the greater part of the district north of the Great Western
Railway, but in the central and western portions the clay is covered
with a bed of ochreous gravel, which, in some parts, reaches a thickness
of 10 or 12 feet. In the eastern and southern portions, the clay
is covered with "Loess," a rich loam or brick earth, with patches of
gravel and sand.
POPULATION.
In last year's report, the various methods by which the population
of a district is estimated, were mentioned, and reasons were given
for discarding the method adopted by the Registrar-General. It
was then stated that the nearest approach to a correct estimate would
probably be attained by calculating the number of new houses erected