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REPORT
ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE SEVERAL PARISHES
INCLUDED IN THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT. FOR THE
QUARTER THAT ENDED JUNE 27th, 1857.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth. District.
Gentlemen,
The statistical tables inserted in the appendix to this report have
well repaid the trouble of compilation, shewing as they do results of a
very satisfactory character.
Mortality.
In the quarter that ended 27th June, the number of deaths from all
causes, registered in the entire Wandsworth District, was 257. The
number registered in the June quarter of 1856 was 296. It follows
therefore that the mortality of the past quarter was less by 39 than that of
the corresponding one of last year, though no correction be made for the
increase of population in the interval. Comparing the average mortality
of the June quarters of the ten previous years with that of the quarter
just expired, and allowing for increase of population, it will be found
that the difference in favor of the latter is as near as possible the same
as the above, viz, 39. A reference to the tables themselves, will
furnish the enquirer not only with the relative rate of mortality
of the several sub-districts, but with the ages at death iu all cases