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with no less than 425, or more than twice as many as ten years ago
(Table II).
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age registered
in the district was only 62. This is the lowest number since
1903, in which year the births were only 513. We can therefore
boast an infantile mortality rate of 88. Ten years ago the rate was
126, and for the last decade the average has been 116.
The total numberof deaths registered in the district was 277, and
with our estimated population the uncorrected death rate is therefore
only 9 per 1,000,
This is the lowest rate yet on record for Barnes and Mortlake,
with the exception of that sanitary annus mirabilis, 1908.
The deaths of residents registered in public institutions beyond
the district were, so far as ascertained, 44. This number is greater
than in any former year, because greater pains have been taken to
collect the particulars.
Their inclusion, however, though bringing the corrected death
rate up to 10.5, still leaves us with a record better than that of
any year except 1908.
It must be remembered that even this rate would be lower if we
were able to exclude the deaths of persons whose bodies are found
in the river, etc., and who have not resided in the district.
Table II. shews, in addition to facts already mentioned, that
not only the infantile death rate, but the general death rate, is
considerably higher in Mortlake than in Barnes. There are several
reasons for this, but differences in the soil and configuration may
be noted. There is more clay and loam in Mortlake; more
gravelly sand in Barnes.