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REPORT.
Addison House,
Upper Edmonton.
March 10th, 1895.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present you with the report
on the Vital Statistics and Sanitary Work of your district,
for the year 1894, being my fourth annual report as Medical
Officer of Health.
vital statistics.
I append herewith the two tables, "A" of deaths,
and “B” of population, births, and new cases of sickness
prescribed by the Local Government Board, duly filled up.
population.
The population of the district, exclusive of that of
the two Unions situated therein, was by census 1881,
13,065, and by census 1891, 23,473; assuming that the same
rate of increase holds good, the population in June, 1894,
would be 28,419; this calculation is made by means of the
formula P = pRn, where P = population required p that at
last census and R rate of increase during last inter-censal
period, n being the number of years (in this case 3.25) since
the last census was taken.
The following figures have been calculated from
those in the tables.
deaths.
The number of deaths in Edmonton district was 350
„ „ of persons belonging to Edmonton,
but occurring in Institutions outside
it, was 22
Total 372
Death rate, excluding both population and deaths
in Edmonton Union Workhouse, and using estimated
population as the basis of calculation = 13 09 per thousand.
Death rate, including both population and deaths in
Edmonton Workhouse in the calculation = 18.07 per