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By this Table it will also be seen that there were
registered in this Sub-district during the past year 480
deaths, of which 231 were of males, and 249 of females.
The total number of deaths registered in the preceding
year was 508, so that the number recorded in the past
year was less by 28 than in 1869, notwithstanding a
greatly augmented population. There were also registered
the births of 433 males, and 434 females,—total 867.
The excess of births over deaths, marking the natural
increase of the population for the year, was therefore 387.
Having no longer to speculate upon the actual number
of the inhabitants, but relying on the statistics of the late
Census, as giving to Clapham 27,348 as its present population,
and 26,903 as the population in the middle of the
year 1870, I am enabled to state, with some confidence,
that the death-rate of the year 1870 could not have very
greatly exceeded 17 in every 1,000 persons living, and
this I find very closely approaches the rate 1 have
assumed in several of my former reports.*
The comprehensive Table which follows conveys in the
smallest possible space a fund of information, and is, in
point of fact, almost an annual report in itself, since it
leaves but little to comment upon, if due comparison be
made, from year to year, of the figures of the several
Tables already published.
* The above calculation is made on the principle adopted by the
Registrar General, the correct death-rate, according to the figures
officially communicated to the Chairman of our Association, being 17.4
per 1,000.