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Births.
The number of births during the year was 692
(311 males, 381 females); the birth rate was 28T5
against 29.52 for 1894. The birth rate for London
was 30.5; and for the thirty-three great towns, 31.3
per thousand.
Deaths.
During the year 382 deaths were registered (190
males, 192 females), including four non-residents not
included in the death rate.
The annual rate of mortality amounted to 15.37
per thousand, against 13.05 for 1894. For London
it was 19.8; and for the thirty-three great towns it
was 20.7.
An account of the deaths, tabulated in the usual
forms required by the Local Government Board, will
be found at the end of this report.
Diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) were responsible for 64 deaths; an increase
of eight on the year 1894.
Tubercular Diseases.
These are among the most important with which
sanitarians have to deal, the extent to which they
prevail in a district being regarded as the test of the
healthiness, or otherwise, of the population. They
are too frequently hereditary, but are at the same time
susceptible of considerable amelioration, under