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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
Streatham, Tooting, and Balham, having been consolidated into
one sub-district for sanitary purposes, in the March quarter of 1858, at
which period I entered upon my duties as one of the medical officers of
health, I can only speak (from my own abservations) of nine months of
that year; but it has been my endeavour to collect and to put together
with the greatest accuracy possible under the circumstances, the
necessary statistics for the whole year, including the quarter preceding
my accession to office.
In a population, at the last census, of 9,023, but which may now be
assumed to have reached over 10,000, the deaths from all causes during
the past year in this sub-district, amounted to 134. In the year 1856,
112 deaths only were registered; and in 1857, the smaller number still
of 100; so that the mortality of 1858 was greatly in excess of that of both
the preceding years. This excess may in a great measure be accounted for
by the fact of more persons than usual having died from old age, viz.,
16. The deaths also, occurring at 60, and under 80, have been unusually
numerous, the number being 42 in 1858, against much lower figures in
the two previous years.