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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
The result of the tabulation of statistics applying to the
year 1872, has been to show a less healthy condition of this
Sub-district than usual. My calculations as to the deathrate
in this locality in my last report, shewed the same to
have been a fraction under 13 per 1000, living: in the past
year it is estimated to have been as high as 15.1 per 1000,
the deaths being 228, and the population in the middle of
the year (1872) 15,027. In the preceding year (1871) it
was found that 187 deaths had occurred in a population of
14,475. The difference in the death-rates of these two years
is, then, quite 2 per 1000 in favour of 1871. This, it is
thought, is quite an exceptional condition of things, and one
which it is hoped and believed will not be persistent.
The births during the year were, of males 223, and of
females 209; total 432. The excess of births over deaths
is 204.
The usual mortality table, giving the causes of death, the
sex, ages, and social positions of those who have died during
the year, will now be referred to, and a few brief remarks
made upon each division of such table.
It may be remarked upon this table that the deaths
registered within the 52 weeks of the past year, ending
December 28th, are alone referred to, and the same numbers
adopted as the Registrar General gives for this Sub-district
in his last Annual Summary.