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SUTTON URBAN DISTRICT.
Medical Officer's Report for the Year 1919.
POPULATION.
1911 (census), gross, 21,270. Net, 19,535.
Average number of persons per house—4.88.
Estimates of the Registrar-General, and his
explanation of these, for the year 1919:—
The death-rate population—21,246—excludes all noncivilian
males, whether serving at home or abroad.
This is necessary for the purposes of local death rates,
because it has proved impossible to transfer the deaths
of non-civilians to their areas of residence or to deal
in any other satisfactory manner with the local mortality
of this element in the population. These estimates are
based mainly upon the rationing returns, kindly placed
at the Registrar-General's disposal by the Ministry of
Food.
The Birth Rate (and marriage rate) population—
22,132—on the other hand, is intended to include all
the elements of the population contributing to the birth
and marriage rates. It consists, therefore, of the
death rate or civilian population, plus all non-civilians
enlisted from this country, whether serving at home or
abroad. This non-civilian element has been distributed
over all the districts in the country, in proportion to
their estimated civilian population.
SITUATION.
Sutton is situated 11 miles south of Whitehall in the
watershed of the Thames in the north-east portion of
the County of Surrey, the centre of the town being a
little above the line where the chalk of the London
Basin comes to the surface to form the North Downs.
A narrow band of the London Tertiaries, running due
east and west, appears between the chalk and the clay.
Towards the north and north-west and on the clay
is the lowest land—81 feet above sea level—and
through it runs the Pyl Brook, receiving the chief part
of the surface water of the whole district and the