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Deaths.
The total number was 443 (230 males, 213 females
whilst for 1907 they amounted to 339. The number
of deaths registered outside the district was 108;
there were in addition 16 deaths of non-residents
registered.
The deathrate calculated on the total number of
deaths of parishioners, viz., 351, with the addition of
108 who died beyond the district, and deducting t6
non-residants who were registered in the district,
makes a total of 443. The death rate was 12.17 Per
thousand. For London it was 13.8, and for the 76
principal towns 15.8.
Infantile Deathrate.
The number of children who died under a year was
96, compared with 109 for 1907, and was equal to
106.9 Per thousand births, compared with 119.1 for
1907, and 115.2 for 1906. For London it was 113
and for the 76 principal towns 128.
It becomes a question as to how far this reduction
may be due, to the work and energy of your Health
Visitor, whose services have been well appreciated by
the class of people amongst whom she works, and by
whom she is well received and appreciated. As
regards the "Notification of Births' Act," it is clear
that greater use might have been made of it, had
there been more consideration shown in framing it
for the difficulties in which the medical practitioner
must occasionally find himself in the matter of