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mortality of these institutions, and to add to it the. deaths
of Wandsworth parishioners that occurred in the Union
Infirmary. Calculated in accordance with these conditions
the death.rate of the past year was 19.05 per
1,000. This rate is at least 1 per 1,000 higher than that
deducihle from the number of occupied houses, or from
the average proportion of births to population already
referred to. Inclusive of the deaths that occurred in
institutions external to the sub.district, and which are
probably fully compensated by the deaths of non.
parishioners. the rate would be 21.1 per 1,000. The
latter, therefore, cannot be accepted as correct, for
while the deaths of the parishioners dying without the
parish are accurately recorded, there is no means of
ascertaining the number of deaths that occur within the
parish of persons who belong to other districts, and
which ought to be excluded.

* Deaths in Outlying Institutions not included.
Causes of In the following table all the causes of
Death. death will be found classified according to
the sex, age at death, and the social position of the
deceased persons, the diseases of the zymotic class being
severally set forth:—