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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
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Natural
increase.
The excess of births over deaths numbered
660; of males, 323, and females, 337. The
rate of natural increase was equal to 11.8 per 1,000.
Table I. gives the number of births and deaths,
birth-rates and death-rates, and rates of natural increase
and is comparative of the past twelve years.
| YEARS. | Births. | Birth-rates. | Deaths from all Causes. | Death-rates. | Rates of Natural increase. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 1,078 | 35.6 | 423 | 13.9 | 23.6 |
| 1886 | 1,078 | 34.3 | 473 | 15.0 | 19.2 |
| 1887 | 1,185 | 30.0 | 445 | 11.6 | 19.1 |
| 1888 | ] ,184 | 26.3 | 515 | 11.4 | 14.8 |
| 1889 | 1,020 | 25.5 | 410 | 10.2 | 15.2 |
| 1890 | 1,063 | 25.3 | 484 | 11.5 | 13.7 |
| 1891 | 1,084 | 25.2 | 555 | 11.6 | 13.5 |
| 1892 | 1,067 | 23.7 | 558 | 12.4 | 11.3 |
| 1893 | 1,206 | 25.6 | 587 | 12.4 | 13.2 |
| 1894 | 1,163 | 23.7 | 492 | 10.0 | 13.6 |
| 1895 | 1,200 | 23.4 | 581 | 11.3 | 12.1 |
Deaths In
Outlying
Institutions.
The deaths of parishioners in outlying institutions
numbered 93, of which 53 were
males and 40 females. This is rather in excess
of the number which occurred during the previous
year, and is principally contributed to by those between
the age of 25 and 65 years.
The following table which indicates the nature of
the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and
the character of the institution in which death occurred,
and includes all parishioners dying in outlying general
and special hospitals within the Metropolis and the
Workhouse Infirmary.