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Wandsworth 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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60
CLAPHAM.
In order to maintain the existing facilities for yearly
and other comparisons, it will be seen that I continue to
employ the same tables as I have done for many years past;
and I think, with my colleagues, that the information it is
necessary to impart to the readers of these reports cannot be
conveyed in a more concise and complete manner than in
forms that have been adopted from almost the very first
year of the official exertions of the Medical Officers.
An extra introductory tabic employed by me is the
following, and I here repeat it as a means of saving much
descriptive matter, and more particularly as a ground-work
for the observations it will be necessary for me to make upon
the sanitary events of the past year.

Table: Table showing the Births, Deaths, and Marriages that took place in the Sub-district of Clapham during 1874, compared with the number of these events in the ten previous years, 1864-73 :—

Table showing the Births, Deaths, and Marriages that took place in the Sub-district of Clapham during 1874, compared with the number of these events in the ten previous years, 1864-73 :—

Yeaus18G418G5186618671868186918701871187218731874
Marriages227221310244272234158249236257284
Births640707711777801838867864858929937*
Deaths408393425451450508480604482475528
Excess of Births over Deaths ...202314286326351330387260376454409

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*Of this number I successfully vaccinated in 263 cases. — J. M.