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Wandsworth 1865
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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CLAPHAM.
Having usually commenced my annual report with the
following table, I do so on the present occasion as a basis
for the remarks I shall have to make upon the sanitary and
social questions presenting themselves for discussion.
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In reference to this table I need not again comment at
any length on the one great fact of its holding good with
respect to man, as it does with the inferior animals, that
the increase of the species always keeps pace with the
greater or less abundance of food. Both food and employment
have been most abundant during the past two years,
hence a very marked increase in the number of marriages
is observable in those years, and in the last year especially,
the excess of births over deaths appears to have been unusually
large.
This also shows the increasing prosperity of the subdistrict
in a very marked manner, and must be highly
gratifying to all who take an interest in the social welfare
of the different classes of inhabitants.
STATISTICS OP MORTALITY, &C.
For the year 1865, the deaths registered in the parish
were 398, and these were nearly balanced as to sex, the
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