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Vital Statistics (For Tables see Appendix B.)
According to the rate-books the number of inhabited housed
in the district at Midsummer last was 5,332. Of these rather more
than half were in Mortlake, rather less than half in Barnes.
During the last 6 months of the year the increase in the
number of inhabited houses was considerably greater than in the
early part of the year, and I estimate the population at December
31st to have been at least 29,000. I estimate the population at
Midsummer to have been 28,000, of which 13,450 were resident in
Barnes and 14,550 in Mortlake. On this estimate the birth-rate
for the whole district in 1907 was 24 4, exactly the average for the
preceding ten years (see Appendix B, Tables 1. and II.).
The number of births which actually occurred in Barnes
during 1907 was 277, seven less than in 1906, and the number of
those in Mortlake 407. one hundred and fifty-nine more than in
1906.