London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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the whole of London was, during the same period, 19.7
per thousand inhabitants, and for the twenty-eight great
towns of England and Wales in the proportion of 20.5 per
thousand inhabitants.
The natural increase of the population of Clapham, i. e.,
the excess of births over deaths was 521, giving a rate
of 12.7 per thousand.
| YEARS. | Births. | Birth-rate. | Deaths from all Causes. | Death-rate. | Rate of Natural Increase. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | 1,095 | 34.3 | 545 | 17.7 | 15.8 |
| 1877 | 1,029 | 32.4 | 467 | 14.8 | 18.5 |
| 1878 | 1,019 | 34.2 | 580 | 18.1 | 15.9 |
| 1879 | 1,125 | 34.1 | 561 | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| 1880 | 1,082 | 29.7 | 544 | 14.9 | 15.1 |
| 1881 | 1,059 | 28.9 | 499 | 13.5 | 15.3 |
| 1882 | 1,081 | 28.8 | 544 | 14.5 | 14.3 |
| 1883 | 1,085 | 28.25 | 580 | 15.1 | 13.1 |
| 1884 | 1,123 | 28.32 | 543 | 13.7 | 14.6 |
Deaths in
Out-lying
Institutions
The deaths already enumerated do not
include those of inhabitants of this subdistrict
who have died in out-lying institutions,
such as the Union Infirmary, the Asylums Board
Hospitals for Infectious Diseases, and the General and
Special Hospitals of the Metropolis. In the following
table, these additional deaths, 77 in number, are arranged
so as to shew the causes of death, age and sex of patients,
and character of the Institution in which they died.