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occurring within the district among persons not
belonging thereto, and adding five belonging to this
district occurring in the County Lunatic Asylum),—
was 12.87. The Birth-rate 33.28 was 1.53 above the
average for the last 10 years and .97 above that of
last year. The corrected Death-rate 12.87 was low
and was 2.21 below that of the last 10 years, and 4.9
below that of last year.
Mailt Mortality
Infant mortality, or the number of Deaths under
1 year, 86; and measured by the proportion of Deaths
to Births registered was 121 to the 1,000 and is 28
below those of last year, and 12 above the average
of the last ten years.
Zymotic Disease
The number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic
Diseases was 28 and the Death-rate per 1,000 per
annum was 1.32. This Death-rate is low, and is 2.07
below that of last year.
The health of the District during the past year
has been very good. The Birth-rate has been high,
and the Death-rate low (only once during the past
10 years have we had a lower Death-rate), the Deathrate
of infants per 1,000 Births registered has only
twice been lower during the past ten years. The
Zymotic Death-rate was also low being 2.07 below
that of last year, and lower than any year during the
past ten years.
Number of Persons
per acre,
and Number
per Inhabited1
House
About 2 acres to 1 person. The number of
ed houses 111 the district is 3602, and the number of
inhabitants per house 5.5. At West Thurrock there
are 7 inhabitants per house.
Chief Geological
Features
The geological formation underlying the district
is chalk, which crops out at Grays and Stifford.
Thanet sands occur on the uplands of Aveley, Grays,
Little Thurrock, Chadwell-St -Mary, and West Tilbury.
Woolwich beds at parts of Orsett, South
Horndon - on - the - Hill (Pump Street), and North
Stanford-le-Hope. Loudon clay crops out at Bulp-
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