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WANDSWORTH.
Population. According to the method adopted by the Registrar
General, the population of the sub-district in the middle of 1893
amounted to 52,422. In intercensal periods we have no certain
method of checking this calculation, but for practical and comparative
purposes, the above may be taken as approaching as near
to the exact population as is possible by any purely calculative
method.
Births and
Birth-rate.
During the year 1,606 births were registered, 847
of males and 759 of females. This is 71 more
than that of 1892, but is 110 less than the corrected average for
the 10 years 1883-92. The birth-rate was 31.95 per 1,000, the
lowest that has been recorded since 1880, and the rate of natural
increase, or the excess of births over deaths, was 18.35 per 1,000.
Deaths and
Death-rate.
The total number of deaths was 820, 445 of males
and 375 of females, 18 less than last year, and 50 less
than the corrected average for the preceding 10 years.
136 of the above deaths took place in the following public
institutions viz.:—In the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, 92 ;
in the Royal Hospital for Incurables, 9 ; in the Prison, 7; and in
St. Peter's Hospital, 8.
The death-rate of the sub-district calculated from the above,
was 15.63, without correction for the above Institutions, while
with such correction it was 13.60 per 1,000.
The following Table shows the number of births and deaths,
birth-rates and death-rates, and rates of natural increase, as compared
with those of the 10) preceding years.
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