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CLAPHAM.
Population.
The population in the middle of 1894, estimated
in the usual way, is 46,380, being an increase of 843 over
the previous year.
Births and
Birth-rate.
The number of births registered during the year
was 1,023, of which 513 were males and 510 females.
This is a smaller number than in any year of the past
decade, excepting the year 1890. The birth-rate was
22.05 per thousand, also exceptionally low and materially
less than in any of the preceding ten years. The rate of
natural increase, reckoned from the excess of births over
deaths, was 11.25, whereas the decennial average was
10.47.
Deaths and
Death-rate.
There were only 501 deaths in this sub-dislrict
during 1894, a very small number indeed; 230 were of
males and 271 of females. This number is 100 less than
in 1893, and also less than in any of the previous years —
out of these, too, 25 were of non-parishioners and occurred
in the "Hostel of God" and British Home for incurables.
If these deaths are excluded the death-rate becomes 1026,
without such exclusion the rate is 10.8. The deaths of
Clapham inhabitants that occurred in hospitals and
institutions outside its borders are not included in this
total, however. On referring to Table III. below, they are
seen to be 126 in number. Adding these we get a total
of 602, giving a rate of 12.9. This compares with a cor-