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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 1898

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

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68 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Natural
increase.
The excess of births over deaths numbered
651—of males 290, and of females 361;
ducing a rate of natural increase equal to 10.7 per 1,000
of the population.
Table I. gives the number of births and deaths,
birth-rates and death-rates, and rates of natural increase
during the past thirteen years.

Table: TABLE I.Birth and Death Hates.

TABLE I.

Birth and Death Hates.

YEARS.Births.Birth-rates.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rates.Rates of Natural increase.
18851,07835.642313.923.6
18861,07834.347315.019.2
18871,18530.044511.619.1
18881,18426.351511.414.8
18891,02025.541010.215.2
18901,06325.348411.513.7
18911,08425.255511.613.5
18921,06723.755812.411.3
18931,20625.658712.413.2
18941,16323.749210.013.6
18951,20023.458111.312.1
18961,27722.861711.011.8
18971,33122.85679.713.1
18981,35922470811.710.7

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Deaths in
Outlying
Institutions.
The deaths in outlying Metropolitan Institutions
numbered 101, compared with 106
during the year 1897.
Of the deaths recorded, 51 were of males and 50 of
females.