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2. Births.—377 births were registered during the year, 200 boys and 177
girls, giving a birth-rate of 22.8 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with an average
of 23.6 during the preceding ten years. The birth-rate for the whole of England
and Wales during 1904 was 27.9
3. Deaths.—There were registered 154 deaths as having occurred within the
district, of which six were of persons not belonging thereto viz., three at the Sutton
Hospital and three at the Metropolitan Asylum Board's School, whilst 14 deaths
took place at Epsom Union Workhouse and tour at Brookwood Asylum of persons
removed to these institutions from within the district. This gives a total of 166
deaths of inhabitants, of which 83 were males and 83 females, and a death-rate of
10.0 per 1,000 of the estimated population, as compared with 9.2 the preceding year,
and an average of 11.4 during the ten previous years.
The death-rates in England and Wales was 16.2 for the year and in 142 of the
smaller towns 15.6.
4.—Infant Mortality. —The deaths of 37 children under the age of 12 months
were registered, and the infant mortality, as measured by the proportion of deaths
under one year old to the number of births registered during the year, was 9.8 per
cent., as compared with an average of 10.6 during the ten previous years. The
general rate in England and Wales was 146 per cent.
5. Ten deaths were attributed to Phthisis or Pulmonary Consumption, being at
the rate of .6 per 1,000, the same as during three preceding years; and 24 deaths
were due to other lung diseases (Bronchitis, Pneumonia, etc.), or 1.4 per 1,000, as
compared with 1.1 and 2.0 in the two previous years respectively.
6. Epidemic Influenza was credited with three deaths during the year.
7. Cancer (Malignant Disease).—Thirteen deaths were attributed to Cancer,
the rate per 1,000 of the population being .7, the same as in the previous year.
III.—Summary of Sickness and Mortality from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases, and from certain other Diseases which have to be notified
under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, and of the
action taken for preventing their spread.
1. Smallpox.—No deaths or reported cases.
2. Scarlet Fever.—Thirty-one cases of Scarlet Fever were reported as
compared with 21, 36, 27, and 127 in the four preceding years respectively, but no
deaths were attributed to the disease. Twenty-five of the cases were removed to the
Joint Isolation Hospital at Cuddington for treatment, and two which occurred at the
Metropolitan Asylum Board's School in Banstead Road were taken to one of the
hospitals under their control.
3. Diphtheria.—Seventeen cases were notified during the year, but no deaths
were caused thereby. Thirteen were removed to the Isolation Hospital. Four of
these persons had evidently contracted the disease outside the district, but in most
of the others enquiries failed to elicit the source of the disease; slight sanitary
defects were found existing in some of the houses.
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.—Two cases of Enteric Fever were notified as
compared with five the previous year ; no deaths occurred. One of the persons had
undoubtedly contracted the disease whilst away for a holiday from which he had
returned a few days prior to the early symptoms. The other case was also
probably of outside origin, although in this house serious sanitary defects were
found.