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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Twentieth
Annual Report upon the Public Health and Sanitary
Condition of the Hamlet for the year ending March,
1876.
I have estimated the population of the Hamlet during
the year 1875-6, at 100,000, although it is now about
5,000 above that number, and during the current year
I shall adopt this increase for statistical purposes.
Births.
The number of births registered in the Hamlet during
the year was 4005, compared with 4010 the previous
year; the birth-rate was thus 40 per 1000 of the population,
that for the whole of the Metropolis being 35.5,
and for the whole country 35.39. I am, on the other
hand, able to congratulate you upon a low death-rate.
With many authorities upon vital statistics, it is an
accepted theory that a high birth and low death-rate
are incompatible. For many years this Metropolitan
Hamlet has disproved this theory.
Marriages.
The marriage-rate in the Hamlet was a fraction over
19 per 1000, being about two per 1000 over the rate
for the whole county. The previous year the rate was
rather under 19.