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as there has been a considerable falling off lately
in the number of new houses built, that is a chief
reason why so small an addition has been made
during the last three years. It is reported to me
that during the first six years of the decade the
average number of houses built was 121 per
annum, but for the last four years the average
number fell to 59 each year. However, we have
but a short time to "wait and see," and then we
can start once again on a reliable basis.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered
during the year within the district amounted
to 135, and these included all the deaths occurring
in the Isolation Hospital and the Cottage Hospital;
this gives a death rate of 71 per 1,000 in
comparison with a rate of 9.09 for the year before
and of 9.4 as the average of the 10 preceding
years. The corrected death rate is reckoned by
excluding the deaths of non-residents in the
local public institutions, amounting to 12, and
adding to the balance so obtained the deaths of
Surbiton residents that took place in similar
institutions beyond the district; these amounted
to 19, being made up of 18 in the Union Infirmary
and 1 from an asylum at Epsom, thus bringing
the total to 142, and these figures give the annual
death rate as 7'5 per 1,000 of the population,
estimated as being 18,850, which is the nett or
corrected death rate for 1910.
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