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Mr. Fearns resigned in April owing to ill-health and Mr.
A. Thomas was appointed to his post. Miss Stevens resigned
in January to take up a similar post in Lewisham. Miss
Bhose, the Assistant Health Visitor, was promoted, but
resigned in August owing to ill-health. Miss Cooksey has
been appointed Health Visitor.
In lieu of an Assistant Health Visitor the Education
Committee appointed a School Nurse, and Miss James was
appointed.
Owing to a re-arrangement of the Staff in the Surveyor's
Department Mr. Brooks has been assisting in the Health
Department, and has carried out a house-to-house inspection
in the South West Ward.
The following is a summary of the vital statistics for the
year:—
Estimated population, 56,000 inhabitants.
Birth-rate, 26.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death-rate, 126 „
Infantile Mortality, 106 per 1,000 births
Zymotic Death-rate, 2.2 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Phthisis Death-rate, .87 „
Death-rate from other forms of Tuberculosis, .32 per
1,000 inhabitants.
Respiratory Death-rate excluding Phthisis, 2.2 per
1,000 inhabitants.
POPULATION.
Of the various methods of estimating the population of a
district in any particular year, the most reliable in the case of
Acton is based upon the number of new houses erected during
the year. But even this method is liable to a considerable
error. The number of inhabitants in each house rose from 5.9
at the census of 1891 to 6.2 at the census of 1901. This
increase was not due to larger families, but to the conversion
of houses formerly occupied by one family into flats. To