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Date.
Where found.
Previous Addrest.
Oct. 25.
River Thames
South Acton.
Nov. 5.
Richmond Park
Chelsea.
„ 29.
River Thames
Hammersmith.
Dec. 10.
RailwayjCarriage, L.S.W. Ry.
Unknown.
„ 11.
On the way to Royal Hospital
Brentford.
The total number of deaths for the year belonging to the
Borough, compiled according to the instructions of the Local
Government Board, is 426, which gives an annual death-rate of
12*0 per 1,000 of the population living. If the 20 deaths above
referred to were excluded the death-rate would be 11.4. The
average annual death-rate of the Borough for the previous ten
years was 13.2.
The death-rate for England and Wales in 1908 was 14.7,
the 76 Great Towns 14.9, and 142 Smaller Towns (including
Richmond) 140.
The 426 deaths, allocated to the various Wards, were as
follows:—North Ward, 98; South Ward, 120 (65 in Workhouse);
East Ward, 94; West Ward, 54; North Sheen Ward,
22, and Kew Ward, 38.
Chief Epidermic
Diseases Death
Rate.
The number of deaths due to the " seven principal
*Zymotic Diseases" usually classified
under this heading was 20. This gives a zymotic
death-rate of 0-56 per 1,000 persons living, as
compared with 0-54 for 1907 and 0-8 for 1906.
The zymotic death-rate of England and Wales for 1908 was
1-29, that for the 76 great towns 1-59, and Rural England and
Wales, 0-99.
* Small pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, fever,
(typhus, enteric, and continued), and diarrhœa.