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Vital Statistics.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The Registrar General is undertaking this duty this year,
and his tables will be found in an appendix to the Report. The
population I still estimate as the same as in 1914, viz. 34,745.
The exodus of men being counterbalanced by the natural increase
of the population, viz., the excess of births over deaths, and by the
influx of new comers to the district. Very few houses remain
empty, there being about 7,800 inhabited houses in the district.
The Births notified in the district number 570, compared
with 636 for 1915. The Births will probably continue to fall for a
few years owing to the present social and economic conditions.
For 1916 the rate is 16 4 per 1,000 of the population, compared
with 18.3 in 1915. The Deaths of residents in the district number
256, compared with 287 in 1915. This gives a residential death
rate of 7.3 per 1,000, compared with 8'2 in 1915. This is a strictly
residential death rate, and does not include people who have died
elsewhere and given a Barnes or Mortlake address. This rate is
9.7, compared with 10.9 in 1915. Deaths from the principal
Zymotic Diseases number 11 in 1916, compared with 28 in 1915.
The district Infantile Mortality or deaths under 1 year
number 37, compared with 55 in 1915. This gives a death rate of
68 4, compared with 83 8 in 1915.
The deaths from Tuberculosis of the Lungs in 1916
number 36, compared with 29 in 1915.
Deaths From Cancer number 29, compared with 22 in
1916.
The number of illegitimate births number 24, with 11
deaths, compared with 27 in 1915, with 14 deaths.
VACCINATION AND SMALL.POX.
Fifteen per cent, of the school children are unvaccinated,
and exemption certificates are obtained for 25 per cent, of all
children born in the district.
In order to prevent the spread of small.pox, every individual
should be twice successfully vaccinated. The present half.and.half
measures are a common danger, as a person, say, vaccinated once