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vital statistics The number of deaths registered as occuring .within
and belonging to the District, i.e., the now enlarged
District, is 155, including eight deaths from the Union
Workhouse, and one from the County Lunatic Asylum at
Brookwood. The population estimated to the middle of
1896 is 12,763, and this gives a death rate of 12.14 per
thousand per annum. This compares with the death rate
for London of 18'6, and for England and Wales of 17.1.
From the principal Zymotic diseases there were recorded
14 deaths, giving a rate of 1.09. That for London is 3'14,
and for England and Wales 2.18. The total births amount
to 281, with a birth rate of 2201. For London the rate is
802, and for England and Wales 29.7. There is naturally
very considerable difference in the birth rate in the different
parts of the District, it being in Tolworth nearly 47 per
thousand, and in Surbiton only 19. The infant mortality,
i.e., the ratio of deaths of children under one year of age
to one thousand births is 96. In London it is 161, and for England and Wales 148.

The Infectious
Disease (Notification,)
Act,
1889.
This Act continues to work well and the large majority
of the cases are notified promptly by the medical man in
attendance. This is a very important point, and it is well
to direct attention to it. On the other hand notification by
the householder is not by any means uniformly carried