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The additional Pavilion at the Isolation Hospital has been
commenced, and the work will probably be completed before the
summer.
On March 10th, 1910, the new Council Offices were opened
and all the departments are now housed under the same roof.
A Bacteriological Laboratory has been fitted out, and most of
the Bacteriological diagnosis is now made in the building.
The following is a summary of the vital statistics for the
year:—
Estimated Population, 57,000 inhabitants.
Birth Rate, 25.8 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death Rate, 10 9 „
Infantile Mortality, 102 per 1,000 births.
Zymotic Death Rate, .95 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Phthisis Death Rate, .75 „
Death Rate from other forms of Tuberculosis 16 per
1,000 inhabitants.
Respiratory Death Rate, excluding Phthisis, 2.3 per
1,000 inhabitants.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The district, with an area of 2,304 acres, is about 3 miles
in length and 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.
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.