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* “Uninhabited houses inoccupation " means that the houses were in
general occupation for business or other purposes, but no one resident on
night of census.
The Population of the District, as estimated to the middle of
1910, was 8,338, showing an increase of 909 on the census population
of 1901, and of 103 on the estimated population of 1909.
The number of registered births amounted to 163, including 86
of males and 77 of females, giving a Birth-rate of 19.5 per 1,000 of
population, as compared with 22.2 in the previous year, and 21.1
in 1908.
Sixty-eight, deaths were returned, consisting of 27 of males
and 41 of females. To this number must be added 19 deaths of
residents who died in public institutions outside the District, viz.,
9 in the Union Workhouse, 3 in the St. Paul's Cray Cottage Hospital
(Bromley Rural District), 1 at the Bromley and Beckenham
Joint Isolation Hospital, Bromley Common, and 6 at the Sidcup
Cottage Hospital, Foots Cray, making a nett total of 87 deaths.
The Death-rate was 10.4 per 1,000 of population, as compared
with 9.3 in the previous year, and 6.5 in 1908.
The principal epidemic diseases include Small-pox, Measles,
Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Fever (including the
three principal forms—Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid Fever, and
Pyrexia of uncertain origin), and Diarrhoea. Only two deaths resulted
from any of these diseases, viz., 1 from Scarlet Fever and 1
from Whooping-cough.
The Epidemic Disease Death-rate was 0.23 per 1,000 of population,
as compared with 0.24 in 1909, and 0.61 in 1908,