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It is a matter of great regret that I have been unable to get the population
as regards age and sex distribution, for the purpose of more
accurately computing the death-rate for this district compared with that
of England and Wales as a whole. We have a large infant population
which, no doubt, is a large factor in the production of our death-rates.
The following summary of the chief items of sanitary
importance in your district may be given thus:—
Area of Sanitary District in acres 4,355
Population, 1881 Census 21,697
„ 1891 „ 46,346
1901 95,125
„ 1902 Assumed Registrar General 101,318
No. of Persons per house (assumed) 5.8
No. of Persons per acre (exclusive of Sewage Farm and Reservoirs) 27.5
Total Births registered 3,426
„ Deaths „ 1,154
No. of Deaths of Persons not belonging to this District 8
Natural increase of Population 2,272
Birth-rate per 1,000 of estimated population 33.81
Death-rate , „ „ 1138
Zymotic Death-rate 1.3
Infantile Mortality Rate (or proportion which deaths under 1 year
bear to 1,000 births) 115 0
Infectious Sickness Rate 10.68
BIRTHS.—BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of births registered during the year was 3,426 ;
males, 1,716; females, 1,710. Ten of these (males, 5; females, 5),
were born at the Union Workhouse.
In 1901 there were 3,210 births; in 1900, 3,037 ; and in 1899, 2,835.
The birth-rate for 1902 is 33.81, compared with 33.1 for the previous
year, and 32 95 for the ten preceding years.
The number of births over deaths, or the natural increase of the
population was 2,272, compared with 1,923 in 1901, 1,783 in 1900, and
1,553 in 1899.
The birth-rate for England and Wales for 1902 was 28.6, or 5.21
below that for this district; and compared with the previous ten years
the birth-rate is higher by nearly 1 per 1,000, while that of England and
Wales as a whole has decreased by 1 per 1,000.
The ratio of male to female births was as 100 to 99.65.
Distributing the births as supplied by the Registrar over the various
wards of the district, we had in the four quarters :—