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rate, in consequence of their inmates (as of the Surrey
County Lunatic Asylum, the Hospital for Incurables, and
St. Peter's Hospital) being derived from without the Subdistrict,
undergoing no natural increase, and being subject
to a high mortality. The 19 deaths which occurred in the
Workhouse also do not appear upon the Wandsworth
Register of deaths. For these reasons the death register
taken alone cannot be adopted as a trustworthy datum
for the calculation of the natural death-rate of this Subdistrict;
which, therefore is, as hitherto, deduced from the
total deaths which have occurred and an estimated population,
due correction having been made for deaths in
public institutions after the manner described in previous
reports, and the population being 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. Thus calculated, the death-rate for the
past year was 18.49 per 1000 persons living, which is
nearly 2 per 1000 less than the average of the past ten
years corrected for increase of population.
Birth-rate. Rate of natural increase.—The births registered
during the year were 588 in number—276 of
males, and 312 of females. Calculated upon the abovementioned
estimate of the population, the birth-rate and
the rate of natural increase were unusually high, the
former having been 38 and the latter 19.5 per 1000 persons
living of all ages. This great and sudden augmentation
in the birth-rate would appear to indicate a great accession
to the population by immigration ; and such inference is
supported by the fact that not less than 330 houses were
built during the year.
Causes of Death.—The following table contains a summary
of all the causes of death arranged in accordance
with the classification of the Registrar-General, showing
the sex, social position, and age at death at different
periods, and particularizing the several diseases of the
Zymotic class.