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CLAPHAM.
The statistics of births, deaths, and marriages, are at all
times of value to the sanitarian. Adopting the same
table as used by me in most of my previous annual reports,
and having precisely the same objects in view in referring
to it, I need scarcely remark upon the importance of
these statistics to all who are desirous of taking a
comprehensive view of the progress of sanitation in this
Parish.

Bearing in mind the limited area of this Sub-district,
extending as it does, to only 1233 statute acres (by far
the smallest extent of any sub-district under the jurisdiction
of the Board of Works, although more densely
populated) the variations, from year to year, in the number
of births, deaths, and marriages, must strike every one
as being most remarkable. For instance, although the
marriages are represented by a larger number than in
any year since 1856, the number of births are greatly
out of proportion as compared with that of some other
years, and the excess of births over deaths (232) is, in
the past year, less by 9 than even the number recorded
nine years ago, viz., in 1856, when it was 241.