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has been apparent in one or two recent years is coming
to an end; as a distinct revival is shown by the fact
that ninety-one houses in excess of the previous year,
were passed for occupation in 1909, and a considerable
development of building is going on in various parts
of the district.
Deaths.
During the past year the deaths, at all ages, of
people belonging to the district, number 632 (males
302, females 330), as compared with 573 in 1908—an
increase of fifty-nine. This total number includes the
deaths of eighty-two residents in public institutions
beyond the district; of twenty-five in public institutions
within the district, and of seven non-residents,
whose deaths are registered in the borough and have
to be included in the total. The calculated death-rate
per 1,000 of the estimated population is 12.02, being
an increase of .82 over that of the previous year.
Table 4 shows the distribution of deaths in the wards,
classified according to age and causation.
It is convenient here to summarise the vital statistics
for 1909 :—
Population (estimated to the middle of the year),
52,550; total number of deaths of residents only, 550,
but including the eighty-two referred to above, an
actual total of 632; equal to a death-rate of 12.02 per
1,000, or one in every eighty-three of the population;
infantile mortality rate, 76.0; zymotic death-rate, 1.04,
including the deaths from what are styled"the seven
principal zymotic diseases," viz., measles, small-pox,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, diarrhoea,
and " fevers."
The total number of births is 1,184 (boys 627,
girls 557), equal to a birth-rate of 22.53 per 1,000, or
nearly 2 per 1,000 less than in 1908. Excess of births
over deaths, 552. A comparison of these data with
those for the year 1908, shows an increase of population
of 1,550, a decrease of sixty-seven in the number
of births registered, an increase of fifty-nine in the
number of deaths of residents—an increase in the