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Vital Statistics.
The various official tables, as furnished
for completion, and as required by the Local
Government Board, are to be found at the end
of this Report and may be compared in their
details with previous years. The population
is now estimated to be 18747, and it is probable
that in previous years the estimate was unduly
low, but towards the end of the decennial
period, that is the ten years since the last
census was taken, which was in 1901, it
becomes increasingly difficult to form more
than an approximate calculation of the then
existing population. The number of deaths
corrected by adding to the deaths of those
registered within the district itself, those belonging
to it who died in public institutions
elsewhere, mainly the workhouse infirmary,
and deducting the few from the Cottage and
Isolation Hospitals who died there but do not
belong to us—were 189. This is much larger
than the preceding year, and of course affects
the death rate. Nevertheless, the general
health of the district, judged by sickness and
mortality returns, was perfectly satisfactory.
In connection with this, if we are required
to add to our returns the deaths occurring in
the Union Infirmary of persons belonging to
the district, there must, in the future, be some
means of obtaining trustworthy records. I
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