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LOCAL SUMMARIES.
WANDSWORTH.
THE following Report will be found to contain, with the usual
statistics of mortality and sickness, a brief summary of the principal
things which have to be considered in reviewing the sanitary
condition of this sub-district during the past year.
death-rate.
The total deaths registered in this parish during the year 1861
numbered 246—125 males and 121 females—the lowest number
recorded for the last 13 years. The average number during the
past 10 years, corrected for increase of population, was, exclusive
of the cholera year, 319; inclusive of that year, 328. From the
unusual lowness of the number of births registered a corresponding
lowness of the death-rate might at first sight be inferred;
hut the latter, although, as will be subsequently seen, remarkably
low, is not so low as these figures appear to indicate. It has been