View report page

18
Vital Statistics.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered in the district is 220,
but for comparative purposes, certain corrections have to be made.
Eleven deaths of non-residents have to be deducted, and 82 deaths
of residents who have died in other districts have to be added.
The nett deaths therefore are 291.
There were 60 deaths in Public Institutions serving this
district:
The death rate of residents registered in the district is equal
to 6.9 per 1,000 of the population.
The corrected death rate, including residents who have died
outside the district is equal to 9 per 1,000 of the population.
The death rate for England and Wales for 1912 - 13.3
„ „ London ,, ,, - 14.3
(corrected for age and sex)
The number of deaths in children is given below, viz. 41.
This gives a death rate of 58.5 per 1,000 births.
Owing to a wet summer there was very little diarrhoea amongst
infants.
The Notification of Births Act is not yet adopted, but this,
will probably come about in the near future.
The Putney Hospital 2
The Royal Hospital, Richmond 11
The Richmond Infirmary 37
The West London Hospital 8
The Isolation Hospital 2
INFANTILE MORTALITY.