Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE.
Showing the yearly increase for the whole district, and for the constituent parishes, in the number of houses inhabited.
Date of Computation. | Number of Houses Inhabited. | ||
---|---|---|---|
Barnes (Urban). | Barnes. | Mortlake. | |
1901 March (Census) | 3403 | 1893 | 1510 |
1902 (Midsummer) | 3814 | 2051 | 1763 |
1903 (Midsummer) | 4036 | 2167 | 1869 |
1904 (Midsummer) | 4435 | 2315 | 2120 |
1905 (Midsummer) | 4685 | 2377 | 2308 |
Increase in 4ΒΌ years | 1282 | 484 | 798 |
Increase in last year | 250 | 62 | 188 |
The death rate for 1905 is so low as 10.4 per thousand of the
estimated population, or, when "corrected" by the computation
of the deaths of "residents" in public institutions (such as Brookwood
Asylum and Richmond Infirmary) outside the district, 11.9
per thousand.
This "correction," required by official usage, is, however,
very nearly balanced by the number of "deaths registered in the
district," which is really the number of persons, at no time
residents of Barnes and Mortlake, whose bodies were found in the
river between Kew and Putney.