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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
The calculation having reference to the death-rate of this
Sub district, will, in this report, be made with comparatively
little difficulty.
The Census of April, 1871, furnishes some valuable
statistics available for this purpose, and discloses the fact
of there having been in the ten years that have elapsed
since the Census of 1861, an increase of the inhabitants of
Streatham, Tooting, and Balham combined, of no less than
4,397 persons, giving, within a small fraction, an annual
average of 440. The number of inhabitants in 1861 was
10,082, it is now 14,479. Correcting these last figures in
order to bring them to apply specially to 1870 (the year
under review), and taking the registered deaths to be 209
as stated in the Mortality Table, it has been calculated
that the death-rate of the past year was 14.7 per 1,000
persons living. This is exceedingly satisfactory.
The births during the year were 382,—males 196,
females 186. The excess of births over deaths, giving
the natural increase of the population for the year, was
173. Of the 209 registered deaths, 107 were of males,
and 102 of females.
The following Table will afford more detailed information
of the number of deaths, the causes of the same
under each class of -disease, with several other particulars
which it is hoped will prove alike interesting to the
sanitarian and to the inhabitants generally:—