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Wandsworth 1887

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

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such is the case finds corroboration in the proportion
which the annual average number of births bore to the
annual average number of persons living during the preceding
ten years. Calculated from this proportion the
mean population of 1887 was 35,144, giving a birth-rate
of 38.07, a death-rate of 15.76, and a rate of natural increase
of 22.31 per 1,000.
The Birth and Death rates for the past and ten preceding
years are shewn in the subjoined table.

Table: Birth and Death Rates.

Birth and Death Rates.

Team.Births.Birth- rate.*Deaths from all causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
Corrected.Uncorrected.
187768429.9038412.5916.1317.31
187871830.5342214.4117.2616.12
187974437.9751618.0420.5619.93
188081030.5348415.4517.6715.08
188190133.7050717.4317.9716.61
188297235.2854417.4918.7017.79
188390732.0749916.1716.7115.90
18841,07236.7257617.2318.7718-84
18851,12237.3762818. 8219.9318.55
18861,25540. 4072219.0522.3321.35
18871,33841.9661015.5818.4024.59

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* Deaths in Outlying Institutions not included.
The following table exhibits all the causes of death
classified according to the sex, age and social position of
the deceased persons, the diseases of the zymotic class
being severally set forth :—