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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The estimated population, in the middle of 1896,
calculated from the above, amounted to 58,698. By
subtracting the population of the institutions in the
parish from this, viz : 3,906, we get the corrected population,
54,792.
The number of persons per inhabited house, calculated
from the foregoing table, is 6, and is 1 above the
number at the census of 1891.
In 1891, the population was 46,720, or, after deducting
the public institutions, 43,209, the total increase of
population in the quinquennium being 10,986,
Births and During the 53 weeks ending the 2nd Janu
Birth-rate. ary 1897, which comprise the registration
year, 1,754 births, 877 of males and 877 of females,
were registered, a total increase of 72, compared with
the year 1895. The corrected decennial average was
1,909. 158 births took place in the workhouse, of which
57 belonged to this sub-district, 63 to Battersea, 16 to
Clapham, 15 to Streatham, 5 to Tooting, and 2 to Putney.
The birth-rate was 31.41 per 1,000, an increase of
.47 per 1000 compared with 1895. After deducting the
number of births which occurred in the workhouse, of
children whose mothers belonged to other districts, the
birth-rate was 29.6 per 1,000.
The rate of natural increase, or the excess of births
over deaths, was 18.06 per 1,000.
Deaths and During the year, 886 deaths were registered,
Death-rate. 439 of males and 437 of females, an increase
of 88 as compared with 1895, but 51 less than the corrected
decennial average. The death-rate was 14.82 per
1,000, an increase of 1.03 compared with 1895, but 2.25
less than the decennial average.