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Wandsworth 1875

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

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48
CLAPHAM.
I again make use of the introductory Table I have
employed for many years, because I can find no better
basis upon which to rest the descriptive portion of my
annual report, and at the same time to save my readers
the trouble of reading through lengthened remarks on
matters that can be much better understood and appreciated
by a mere glance at a simply constructed form such
as the one which follows.

Table: This Table shows the number of marriages, births and deaths, that took place in this Sub-district during the past and ten preceding years, and it will, it is hoped, serve to facilitate the clear understanding of the other statistical facts which I shall subsequently have to remark upon.

This Table shows the number of marriages, births and deaths, that took place in this Sub-district during the past and ten preceding years, and it will, it is hoped, serve to facilitate the clear understanding of the other statistical facts which I shall subsequently have to remark upon.

Years18651866186718681869187018711872187318741875
Marriages221310244272234158249236257284243
Births707711777801838867864858929937965*
Deaths393425451450508480604482475528548
Excess of Births over Deaths314286326351330387260376454409417

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*Of this number I successfully vaccinated in 308 cases. — J. M. D.
Although the marriages were not quite so numerous
during the past year as during the previous one, they
still present a goodly number, and, when viewed with the
fact of there having been much the largest number of
births of any year since 1864, and a much larger excess
of births over deaths than in the preceding year, it gives
very good evidence of the improving social condition of this
locality.
Zymotic Diseases.—This class of diseases, as regards
both intensity and fatality, is well set forth in the next
Table. There were as many as 125 deaths in the year
preceding the one in review, but in the past year they