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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Barnes 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE I.
Vital Statistics of whole District during 1901 and Previous Years.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Totai. Deaths registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Publie Institutions in the District. | Deathe of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Net Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Rate* | Under 1 Year of Age | At all Ates. | |||||||||
| Number | Rate per 1.000 Births registered | Number | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1893. | 15,600 | 412 | 26.4 | 56 | 135.9 | 246 | 15.7 | 11 | … | 29 | 275 | 17-6 |
| 1894. | 16,000 | 367 | 22.79 | 44 | 119.3 | 166 | 10.3 | 2 | … | 1 | 167 | 10.4 |
| 1895. | 16,200 | 397 | 26.5 | 51 | 128.4 | 218 | 13.45 | 7 | … | 6 | 224 | 13.8 |
| 1896. | 16,800 | 404 | 24 | 61 | 140.9 | 191 | 11.36 | 4 | … | 7 | 198 | 11.7 |
| 1897. | 16,950 | 370 | 21.8 | 54 | 145.9 | 196 | 11.56 | 2 | … | 5 | 201 | 12.4 |
| 1898. | 17,300 | 351 | 20.28 | 64 | 182.3 | 203 | 11.7 | 5 | … | 3 | 207 | 11.9 |
| 1899. | 18,000 | 458 | 25.4 | 58 | 126.6 | 225 | 12.2 | 5 | ... | 4 | 229 | 12.6 |
| 1900. | 18,300 | 416 | 22.7 | 56 | 134.6 | 220 | 12.02 | 1 | … | 3 | 223 | 12.1 |
| Averages for years 1893-1900. | 16,893.7 | 396.6 | 23.49 | 55.6 | 139.6 | 208.1 | 12.3 | 4.62 | … | 7.37 | 215.5 | 128 |
| 1901. | 17,900 | 420 | 23.49 | 56 | 133.3 | 214 | 11.9 | 3 | … | 24 | 238 | 13.2 |
* Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Area of District
Exclusive of Area
Covered by Water
2,400 acres.
Total population of all ages 17,821
Number of inhabited houses 3,403
Average number persons per house 5.23
Census of 1901.
Institutions within the district receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the district—none.
Institutions outside the district receiving sick and infirm persons from the district:—Richmond Infirmary and Workhouse, Richmond General
Hospital, Brookwood Asylum.
Other institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among the several localities of the district:—University College Hospital, and
West London Hospital, Hammersmith.