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deaths registered in this district. Not a few of these deaths are
those of persons whose bodies have been recovered from the
river, and such deaths were in times past excluded from
consideration.
For purposes of comparison, therefore, 1 have re-calculated,
from the figures at my disposal, the total deaths registered for
the last seven years, and the death rates, on the basis now
required.
This inclusion of the deaths of non-residents is, perhaps,
not so unfair as at first appears, for not a few persons from this
district die in London Hospitals and elsewhere, their deaths,
which should be credited to Barnes and Mortlake, being for
statistical purposes lost count of.
Particular pains, however, have been taken to make the
figures for 1901 in Column 11 accurate, and it will be seen that 24
such deaths have been discovered as against only three in 1900.
This fact should be borne in mind when observing the apparent
increase of the death rate from 12.1 in 1900 to 13.2 in 1901.
This figure (13.2) would be still higher if I were able to give the
deaths that have occurred in Brookwood during 1901 of former
residents in this district.
Table II. affords some means of comparison between the
vital statistics of Barnes and Mortlake. The absolute value of
these figures is, of course, affected by the considerations already
mentioned as affecting those for the whole district.
It appears that in 1901 the infantile mortality was greater
in Mortlake than in Barnes—and not only relatively to the lesser
population, but absolutely.
In previous years the absolute mortality has usually been
higher in Barnes.