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CLAPHAM.
Population.
The population as enumerated at the Census
taken in April, 1896, was 46,953, and estimated
to the middle of the year, 47,122. The
rate of increase shown in the decade from 1881 to 1891,
has therefore not been maintained. Had it been so the
population would have been 48,111, in the middle of 1896.
The increase between the Census of 1891 and that of
1896, has been 6,735 only.
Births and
Birth-Rate.
The number of births registered during the
year was 1,144, of which 586 were males
and 558 females. This is a fall on the
previous year, but exceeds the three years before that. The
birth-rate was 24.27 and is also less than in 1895, while
the rate of natural increase, reckoned from the excess
of births over deaths, was 11 .24.
Deaths and
Death-rate.
There were 616 deaths registered in the subdistrict
during the year, of which 299 were
males and 317 females. There were among
these, 27 of non-parishioners occurring in institutions in
the sub-district; but in addition there were 115 deaths of
Clapham inhabitants registered outside the boundaries.
The net total of deaths is therefore 704 and the death-rate
calculated from this was 14.94 compared with 15.3 in
1895. The uncorrected rate was 13.07.