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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
The forthcoming general Census, which it is expected
will be taken in April next, will convert the present doubt
as to the increase of population which this Sub-district
has lately undergone, into a certainty; and it is therefore
considered much better to wait the result of such Census
than to assume a death-rate based upon such insufficient
data as we at present possess.
The deaths registered in 1869, the year we are called
upon to review, were 202, which is a number in excess
of that of the previous year of 42. The births registered
in the same period were 33.9, which is, singular to say, a
less number by 3 than that recorded in 1868.
Judging from the number of new dwellings (214) that
have been erected since my last Report was furnished,
there are good grounds for believing that whilst the above
figures yield a natural increase somewhat under that of
1868, the increase by influx of new residents was very
much larger in the past year than in the preceding one.
The excess of births over deaths was, it will be seen,
137. As there is but very little doubt the increase by
immigration nearly or quite trebled the above, it may be
very fairly assumed that the actual rate of mortality did
not very greatly exceed that of the previous year. That
it should be, to some extent, in excess of that of 1868, can
scarcely excite surprise, seeing how generally prevalent
and fatal have been many of the diseases of the Zymotic
class throughout the country.
The following table, constructed as it always has been
with a special view to a comparison with the collected
statistics of previous years, will furnish the usual detailed
information concerning the mortality of the past year.
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