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CLAPHAM.
Population.
The population in the middle of 1893 estimated
in the usual way was 45,537, an increase of 826
over the previous year.
Births and Birth-rate.
The number of births registered during the
year was 1,102, of which 583 were males and 519 females.
This is an increase on the previous year, but less than in
1891. The birth-rate was 24.2 as compared with 23.5
last year. Table I. shows the tendency for the birth-rate
to decrease which has been very marked during the last
ten years. The rate of natural increase, reckoned from
the excess of births over deaths, was 11.01; again a
decided increase on 1892.
Deaths
and Death-rate.
The number of deaths registered was 601, of
which 284 were males and 317 females,
slightly fewer than in 1892 when the number was 611.
The death-rate was 13.19, and less than that of the three
preceding years. Of these deaths 17 were of nonparishioners
ocurring in the British Home for Incurables
and the Home for the Dying, leaving 584 as the deaths
of parishioners, which gives a death rate of 12.8