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7
Vital Statistics.
after accepting 2 deaths of infants dying outside the district is 40,
representing a rate of 91 per 1,000 births. Several of these deaths
were directly due to illness or shock on the part of the mother
The registered deaths among civilians resident and dying in the
district number 368, giving a residential death rate of 11.3 per 1,000
of the population. After adding deaths of residents, who
died outside the district, and after deducting deaths of nonresidents
dying in the district, the net deaths number 404, which
represents a rate of 12.4 per 1,000 of the civilian population. The
increased death rate is almost entirely accounted for by the
severe Influenza epidemics.
The causes of the Infantile Mortality are set out in the following
table:—
Measles, 3; Meningitis, 3; Diarrhoea, 7 ; Premature Birth, 13 ;
Whooping Cough, 1 ; Bronchitis, 1 ; Malformations, 1 ; Other
Causes 2 ; Influenza 1; Pneumonia 4 ; Marasmus 4.
The population as reckoned for birth rate is 36,223, and that
for the death rate as 32,495.

In London the death rate exceeds the birth rate, a most serious
condition. In Barnes the number of births only exceeds the net
deaths by 34.
The suggested remedy is to build houses and thereby encourage
marriages and family life, also secure good employment by starting