View report page

13
Births.
The number of births registered during the year 1906
was 636 as compared with 668, the average for the
preceding ten years. Of these 324 were males and 312 were
females. The birth-rate for the year was 18.5 per 1,000 of the
population. The average for the Borough during the preceding ten
years was 21T. There were 25 illegitimate births during 1906,
12 of these occurring in the Union Workhouse, 7 in the North
Ward, 4 in the East, and 2 in the West Ward. The birth rate
varied in the different Wards, being 25.1 in the North, 8.9 in the
South, 22 3 in the East, 11.5 in the West, and 14.2 in the Kew
Ward. The birth rate for England and Wales during 1906 was
27 0, being lower than the rate in any year on record; for the 76
great towns on the Registrar General's list it was 27 9, and for the
142 smaller towns it was 26 5 per 1,000 of the population.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough
during 1906 was 409; of these 113 died in the Union
Workhouse and Royal Hospital, 47 of whom belonged to outside
districts. Three patients from Richmond died at Mogden Isolation
Hospital, and 12 at Brookwood Asylum. Correcting for the above,
results in a total of 377 deaths for the Borough, which gives an
annual rate of 11 per 1,000 of the population living.
The mean annual death rate of the Borough for the preceding
ten years was 13.5. The death rate for England and Wales in 1906
was 15.4, the 76 great towns 16.0, and Rural England and Wales
15 0. 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, 40 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 10 4, South Ward 14 3 or without the Workhouse deaths
7-9, East Ward 11-3, West Ward 7 5, and Kew Ward 10 1 per 1,000
of the population,