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births.
The number of births in Edmonton district was
8i7, and 10 of the 53 births which occurred in the
Edmonton Workhouse were of persons belonging to
Edmonton, total 857, this, with the estimated population as
the basis of calculation, gives a birth rate of 30 152 per
thousand persons living, a slightly less rate than that of 1893.
The actual number both of births and of deaths,
is slightly less than in 1893, and this would lead one to
infer that the population may be somewhat over estimated,
owing to the same rate of increase not being maintained,
and the birth and death rates in consequence somewhat
under estimated. Nothing but a more frequent census could
give an accurate knowledge of the population of this
district, as it is one in which the increase by immigration,
owing to the building of whole streets of, for the most part,
small houses, far exceeds that due to excess of births over
deaths, and the age distribution of the population, a most
important factor in estimating vital statistics, probably
alters considerably in the course of a few years.
relation of public institutions to the vital
statistics of the district.
There are two large Public Institutions situated in
the district, viz.: The Strand Union Workhouse and Schools,
and the Edmonton Union Workhouse. As regards the
first of these, the case is simple; its population is entirely
composed of persons not belonging to this district, and its
vital statistics are excluded from all calculations. As
regards the latter however, the case is more complex, for
while the majority of its inhabitants are persons from other
districts, a certain proportion are from this district; the
most accurate way of dealing with its statistics would be to
include in the calculations, those of its inhabitants who
belonged originally to this district, but I have no returns
which would enable me to adopt this course, I have therefore,
except where I have otherwise indicated, excluded
both its population and deaths from the calculations, as in
previous reports. With regard to Public Institutions
without the district, whose statistics affect those of this
district, I have returns of deaths of persons belonging to
this district which occurred in the Wandsworth Asylum,
and in the various London Hospitals, and these are included
in the calculations.
infectious diseases.
The Notification Act was in force during the
entire year. Some infractions of it were noted, but they