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Surbiton (23 x 4). In the same manner the 23
deaths in Kingston would compare with 12 for
Surbiton (3 x 4). This is not as satisfactory as I
should wish, but in the absence of an isolation
hospital it is as good as might be expected.
Enteric, or Typhoid, Fever is in great part a
" drains " disease, and after the inuendos levelled at
the Borough, and the laudation of our plutocratic
suburb, I should have expected to find Kingston's
place for this disease even worse than for Diphtheria.
So far from that being the case, the death-rate for
Kingston is only 0.07, whilst for Surbiton it is 0.l0,
and for New Malden 0.27. In Kingston only 7
cases were notified in 1893, whilst in Surbiton, with
barely one-third of our population, there were 5 cases.
In both places there were some persons who contracted
the disease whilst away from home, and as
the disease chiefly affects adults, one would expect a
somewhat higher rate in childless Surbiton. After
making an allowance for this difference, the Kingston
7 cases would be in proportion with 11 for Surbiton,
instead of 14, the proportion without any allowance
for difference in ages of the populations.
Phthisis show its highest mortality in Ham,
2.12; Kingston comes next, 1.51; New Maiden,
0.81; and Surbiton, 0.58. The latter rate is the
lowest in Surrey, and no doubt is in part due to the
fact that wealthy sufferers go away to warmer climes,
so that the death-rate from this disease is lower
than it should be in all wealthy places that are not
sanatoria for the disease.
Having thus shown that the death-rates in the
various divisions of the district require considerable
modifications, on account of age and sex incidence,
I need merely add that as regards Kingston Hill,
Coombe, and Ham rural, that the latter is mostly
Richmond Park and Ham Common; and that in
Kingston Hill, Coombe, and Southborough together