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The number of deaths of infants and children from birth
to 10 years of age, it will be seen, was 175, which is a
favorable rate compared with that of the preceding year,
when it was 201.
The deaths due to Zymotic diseases at all ages, and
amongst all classes, were 62, which is a less number by
34 than in the preceding year.
It is satisfactory also to find so many persons living
beyond the natural age of man, the table showing that as
many as 83, ranging from 70 to 90 years and upwards,
succumbed to the infirmities and maladies inseparable from
old age.
These facts, it is submitted, show incontestibly the high
value of sanitation, and should reconcile us somewhat to
the heavy expenses incurred in the attainment of so gratifying
a status amongst the parishes included in the
Wandsworth district as that now held by Clapham.

* The 17 deaths recorded in 1866, comprehend the 4 deaths from Cholera that took place
during that year.