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I think, also, it will be in accordance with your wishes
if I deal, firstly, with the health, &c., of the town itself,
so as to enable you to form an estimate of the health
of the town comparatively with other years, and, secondly,
with the whole of the Urban District, including the town
and the contiguous but Rural portion of the Parish of
Romford, formerly under the Rural, but now transferred
to the Urban District.
Romford Town.
145 deaths were registered as having occurred in the
town of Romford, during the year; I do not include
amongst this number those deaths which took place amongst
the inmates of the Union Workhouse, except the deaths
of actual residents of the town who have died there. 64
deaths were registered as having occurred at that Institution,
mainly of aged peoplo, most of whom came from those
parts of the Romford Union beyond the limits of the
Urban District. Eliminating these and including the
deaths of town residents removed to the Union "Workhouse,
the deaths for the town itself were 145. As far as I am
able to judge, an opinion, which can only be formed on
vague surmises, considering the difficulty in estimating
the number of new residents who come every year (and
which will be verified or not by the approaching census),
I estimate the population of the town at 11,000. The
death-rate for the past year would therefore be 13.1 per