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equal to a birth-rate of 20.7, which rate is 3.7 below the
average for the past ten years.
The corresponding rate for England and Wales for the
same period is given as 25.6 in the report of the RegistrarGeneral.
The rates for the respective Wards of the district were as
follows:—
St. Mary's 18.3
St. John's 8.1
Cottenham Park 15.8
Dundonald 21.3
Trinity 31.07
South Park 23.3
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the
district was 451 (207 males, 244 females), equal to a death-rate
of 7.9 per thousand of the population per annum. This was
.4 lower than last year, and 2.5 below the average for the past
ten years, which is seen to be 10.4.
The deaths in public institutions outside the district of
persons belonging to this Borough were:—
Kingston Infirmary 47
County Asylum, Brookwood 8
St. George's Hospital (London) 2
Home for Incurable Children (Brighton) 1
Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square 1
St. Luke's Home, Pembridge Square 1
Stanmore Cottage Hospital 1
St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington 1
The deaths occurring in public institutions within the district
of persons not belonging thereto were:—
Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital 2
South Wimbledon Cottage Hospital 2
North Wimbledon Cottage Hospital 3
After taking these into account, the total number of
deaths properly belonging to the district is found to be 508,
and the death-rate 8.9. The rate for England and Wales for
the same period was 14.5.
Ninety-one deaths of children under one year of age were
registered, and this infantile mortality is represented by a
ratio of 77 deaths per thousand registered births, an increase
of 6 per thousand on the previous year, but a decrease of 38 on
the average for the past ten years. The rate for England and
Wales was 109. Only on two occasions has the infantile mortality
rate fallen below that of this year, namely, in 1905,
when the rate was 69, and last year when it was 71.
By the Zymotic death-rate we understand the number of
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