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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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55
STREATHAM
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
During the year 1875 there was an increase in
the number of deaths in this Sub·district to the extent of
seven only, which, it is hardly necessary to say, is by no
means commensurate with the increase of population in
the interval of the appearance of the previous and present
Reports.
The deaths in the past year (52 weeks ended January
1st, 1876) numbered 237 against 230 in the previous year,
and included 110 males and 127 females. The births
during the year were 519, males 245, females 274, which
is 54 in excess of those registered in 1874.
The excess of births over deaths was 282, representing,
of course, the natural increase of the population.
The number of inhabitants, which was estimated for
1874 to be 15,905, is now, upon the usual calculation
adopted by the Registrar·General, 16,340, and will be
found to yield a death rate of 14·50 per 1000 living.