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Births.
The number of births registered during the year 1903
was 683, as compared with 658, the average for the
preceding ten years. Of these, 339 were males and 344 were
females. The birth rate for the year was 20.8 per 1,000 of
the population. The average for the Borough during the preceding
ten years was 21.8. There were 25 illegitimate births during 1903,
14 of these occurring in the Union Workhouse, 4 in the North
Ward, 5 in the East, and 2 in the West Ward. The birth rate
varied in the different Wards, being 26.2 in the North, 11.2 in the
South, 25.7 in the East, 14.7 in the West, and 17.1 in the Kew
Ward. The birth rate for England and Wales during 1903 was 28 4,
being 0.2 per 1,000 below the rate in 1902, and lower than the rate
in any year on record; for the 76 great towns on the Registrar
General's list it was 29.7, and for the 103 smaller towns it was 27.4
per 1,000 of the population.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough
during 1903 was 460; of these, 106 died in the Union
Workhouse and Royal Hospital, 45 of whom belonged to outside
districts. Eight patients from Richmond died at Mogden Isolation
Hospital and 5 at Brookwood Asylum. Correcting for the above,
results in a total of 428 deaths for the Borough—(199 males and
229 females)—which gives an annual rate of 13 per 1,000 of the
population living.
The mean annual death rate of the Borough for the preceding
ten years was 13.9. The death rate for England and Wales in 1903
was 15.4, the 76 great towns 16.3, and Rural England and Wales
14.8. The death rate varied in the different Wards. Owing to the
returns from the Registrar not giving the previous addresses of the
persons dying in the Union Workhouse, 34 deaths at that Institution
are placed in the South Ward, but in all probability none, or very
few, actually belong to that Ward. The death rate for the North
Ward was 12.4, South Ward 18.2, or without the Workhouse deaths
12.6, East Ward, 11.1, West Ward 11.3, and Kew Ward 12.9 per
1,000 of the population.