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THE HEALTH OF EALING
Ealing,
March 15th, 1898.
Gentlemen,
In submitting to you the statistics of Births, Deaths,
and general sanitary matters for the past year, I am happy
to be able to state that on the whole they are of a satisfactory
character.
Population.
In my last report I dwelt somewhat in detail upon the
difficulties experienced as we got further away from the last
census in enumerating the population of the District for the
purposes of this return. Availing myself of all possible
sources of information, I have arrived at the conclusion that
a fair estimate of our numbers for calculation of the Birth
and Death Rates will be to regard 33,000 persons as residing
in this district in the middle of the past year.
Deaths.
I may remark that notwithstanding a very material
increase of population, the deaths during last year were
exactly the same in number as the previous year, viz., 308
(153 males and 155 females). This number is equivalent
to a death-rate of 9.3 per 1000, or one in 107 of the
estimated population compared with a death-rate for 1896
of 97; that of London during the same period equalled 18 2
per 1000, and for England and Wales 17.4. The only
adjoining district with which I have information relative to
the death-rate is the Urban District of Harrow-on-the-Hill
which, with only one-fourth of our population was favoured
with an exceptionally low death-rate of 8.03 per 1000. It
will simplify matters if I follow my rule of submitting a
tabular return of the general statistics for the last ten years,