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Surbiton Urban District Council
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health,
1894.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have now the honour of presenting to you for
your consideration this my eighteenth annual report on
the health and sanitary condition of the district under
your care.
Mortality.
In order to arrive at the proper number of deaths to
be credited to the district for statistical purposes, it is
necessary to make various additions to and withdrawals
from the number assigned by the local registrar. Firstly,
with regard to deaths in public institutions within the
district, it is required to exclude those of persons living
elsewhere who are brought in for treatment, and to forward
particulars of them for inclusion in the returns of their
respective localities; and, secondly, to include those of