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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS, 1918.
Population—
Registrar-General's estimate of nett 43,129 (Birth rate)
civil population 38,492 (Death rate)
Birth rate (nett) 16 8
England and Wales 17.7
London 16.1
Death rate (nett) 17 9
England and Wales 17 6
London 18.9
Infantile Mortality Rate 86 per 1,000 births
England and Wales 97 „ ,,
London 107 „ „
YITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The primary difficulty in presenting the vital statistics for the
year under report is that of estimating the population of the
district with any degree of accuracy. The data obtained under
the National Registration Act are not available to this department,
nor, of course, is the number of men still on active service known.
It has only been possible, therefore, to estimate in very round
figures that the nett civil residents, (i.e. excluding enlistments,
etc.), at the middle of the year were 40,000. The RegistrarGeneral
has furnished an estimate of the civil population as
38,492, but it is not quite clear whether this figure, like the
similar figure for 1915, does not exclude residents in local
institutions.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 1,302,
but 682 of these did not belong to the district, while 69 residents
died without the district. Thus the number of deaths properly
attributable to the district was 689. Adopting the basis of the
population estimated by the Registrar-General, the death-rate for
the district comes to 17'9 per 1,000, which is comparable with
the following figures:—17.6 for England and 18 9 for London.