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The deaths registered in public institutions beyond the district
show on the whole an increase. This is because every year it is
possible to more and more nearly make these returns complete.
In 1900 they were quite imperfect, and so any comparison of the
"corrected" death rates shewn in Table I, col. 13, gives an
impression less favourable than is just.
I estimate, however, the corrected death rate for 1910 as 7.9
per thousand, and believe this estimate to be a fair one.
Table II. shews that, as might be expected, the infantile death
rate is higher in Mortlake than in Barnes, and also that there are
many more births in the former parish.
Table III. shews how the cases of infectious disease were
distributed between the two parishes, and Table IV. analyses the
causes of, and ages at, death.
Measles, whooping cough and diphtheria accounted for but five
deaths, and diarrhoea and enteritis for but eight. Cancer accounted
for but only twenty-two, a low figure, all things considered.
Of the infantile deaths, shewn on Table V., seven, or one
seventh of the total, were ascribed to premature birth, and six to
such vague causes as atrophy, etc. Status lymphaticus was
reported once, and cerebro-spinal meningitis once.
The table on page 60 giving, year by year, the number of houses
in actual occupation each Midsummer, has already been commented
on, but attention may be directed to the relatively enormous
expansion in Mortlake. It will be interesting to see if the census
shews whether or no the two parishes differ now in the number of
persons per house. Probably the smaller households will be found
to obtain in Mortlake.