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WANDSWORTH.
The following is a summary of the principal facts necessary
for determining the sanitary condition of this
sub-district during the year 18G5, and for forming a basis
for further sanitary administration.
Statistics of Mortality, &c.—The total deaths which
were registered as having occurred during the past year,
numbered 338. 173 were of males and 165 of females.
88 occurred in the following public institutions; viz.:—In
the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum 64; in the House
of Correction 7; in St. Peter's Hospital 4; in the
Royal Patriotic Asylum for girls 3; in the Reformatory
for boys 1; and in the Hospital for Incurables
9. 17 parishioners of Wandsworth died in the Union
Workhouse, Battersea.
The death rate for the past year, deduced from the register
of deaths, and an estimated population, was 19.26 per
1000 persons living. The average rate of the past nine
years has been 17.98 per 1000 The rate of last year is,
however, very considerably below the average rate of the
entire district.
In making these calculations, correction is made for
deaths in the public institutions after the manner described
in the previous reports, and the population is estimated
upon the assumption that it has increased since the period
of the last census in the same ratio as it had done during
the preceding ten years.
The births were 435 in number; 224 of males, and 211
of females. The birth rate was 30.15, and the rate of
natural increase 11.03 in every 1000 of the entire population.
Both were below the average.