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SANITARY DEPARTMENT,
March 1st, 1894.
To the Chairman and Members of the Chiswick
Local Board.
Gentlemen,
I beg to present my Fifteenth Annual Report
upon the health and sanitary condition of the Chiswick
Urban Sanitary District for the year 1893, together
with the tables and statistics required by the Local
Government Board.
Population.
The estimated population for the middle of the
year I calculate to be about 23,382.
Births.
The number of births registered during the year
was 675, of which 343 were males and 332 females.
The birth rate was 28.86 per thousand (the lowest for
the past 10 years). The birth rate for London was
31 per thousand.
Deaths.
The number of deaths was 338 (167 males, 171
females). The death rate was 14.45 per thousand,
which is, I believe, the lowest recorded, with the
exception of 1889 ; for London it was 2T3 I find
that in 1875 the death rate was 24.9 per thousand,
on an estimated population of 10,000.
The natural increase of population (excess of
of births over deaths was 337.
The principal causes of death have been: