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would be added to the mortality of the district, and
the deaths of strangers from without who died in
theCottage or Isolation Hospitals would be referred
to their respective Authorities. The number of
deaths registered as occurring within, and that
belonged to the combined districts during 1897 is
134. This is after referring to their respective
localities, as stated, deaths occurring in public
institutions within the district, and receiving those
from kindred institutions elsewhere. The deaths
taking place within the Workhouse of inmates
formerly resident in the area of the present district
are not reckoned. I purposed including them, and
did so last year, and have taken much trouble to
obtain them for this year, 1897; but on making
enquiries, and consulting the County Medical
Officer, I find that in none of the other sanitary
districts, as a matter of fact, are they so included,
and that it is not done in any of the Unions of the
County.
Whether at some future time it may be an
instruction to Medical Officers of Health to include
in the vital statistics of their districts the deaths of
Workhouse inmates formerly resident therein, is a
matter that I have no cognizance of; but, until it
is so ordered, I do not propose to recognise them.
Speaking of the district as a whole, the
population at the Census of 1891 was 12,176. At
the middle of 1896 it was estimated to be 12,763,
and in the middle of 1897, 12,869, so that with the
deaths at 134, the death rate is 10.4 per thousand
of the estimated population. That for England
and Wales is 17.4.
The deaths from the principal Zymotic
diseases were 12, giving a rate of 0.93. That for
England and Wales is 2.15. The total births were
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