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Births.
During the period under review 130 births were registered—
62 males and 68 females.
This is equal to an annual rate of 18 05 per thousand of the
estimated population.
Deaths.
Eighty-one deaths of residents were registered, 58 occurring
within the district, 9 at the Workhouse Infirmary at Kingston, 7
in London Hospitals, 3 at the Teddington Cottage Hospital and
4 at other places outside the district.
1'his is equal to an annual rate of 1125 of the population.
As these will be divided at the end of the year into columns
showing the various causes and age periods at death, together
with those occurring in the last quarter of the year, I simply
append a summary of the causes, which are as follows : —
Measles, 1 ; influenza, 1 ; phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis),
5; cancer, 4; tuberculous meningitis, 2; heart disease, 9;
bronchitis, 7; pneumonia, 5; diarrhcea, 2; appendicitis, 1 ;
nephritis, 2; congenital defects and debility, 6; violent deaths, 6 ;
other defined diseases, 30.
Seventeen of these persons were between the ages of 60 and
70, seventeen were between 70 and 80, six were between 80 and
90, and two were 90 years of age and over.
Eleven children died before attaining the age of one year,
which gives a mortality rate among infants of 84.6 per thousand
births.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Forty-four notifications were received during the first nine
months of the year, viz :—Scarlet fever, 24 ; diphtheria, 2;