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Wimbledon Arban District council
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOE THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1896.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Eeport for the
year ended the 31st December, 1896.
It is with great pleasure I have again to call attention
to the very low death-rate, and also to the improving sanitary
condition of this rapidly growing district.
Births. The total number of births registered was 875 (462
males and 413 females), equal to a birth-rate of 26.15 per
thousand per annum; the birth-rate in England and Wales
for the same period is given at 29.7 in the report of the
Eegistrar-General.
Deaths. The total number of deaths registered was 343 (141
males, and 202 females), equal to a death-rate of 10.3 per
thousand living per annum, taking the population at 33,000
(the estimated population at Midsummer, 1896). After
making the usual corrections as indicated at the bottom of
Table 3, the total number of deaths properly belonging to
the district is found to be 365 and the death-rate 11.06. The