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5
LOCAL SUMMARIES.
WANDSWORTH.
The following is a condensed statement of the main facts
relating to the sanitary condition of this parish during the year 1858,
derived from the Registrar General's Returns, the Parochial Records of
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Poor, and other reliable sources;
with such remarks as are deducible from these data. Many of the facts,
which were capable of being so compiled, have been placed in a tabulated
form, in order to secure facility for comparison and general reference.
Mortality.—Death-rate—Birth-rate—Rate of Natural Increase.
The number of deaths registered in this parish during the year 1858
was 289—157 were of males, and 132 of females (Table I.) The
average number during the last ten years, corrected for increase of population,
was 303, exclusive of cholera years ; inclusive of those years, 325 ;
so that, during the past year, there were at least fewer deaths by 14 than
would have occurred had the average rate of mortality then prevailed.
The death-rate for the past year deduced from the total deaths proper to
this parish, and from the present estimated population, was (due correction
being made*) 17.05 per 1000. The death-rate for the previous ten
years, exclusive of cholera years, was 21.7; for 1856 it was 21.3; and
for 1857 it was represented by the unprecedentedly low number of 15.4
per 1000.
The number of births registered during the past year was 353—154
males and 199 females. The average number for the last ten years was
318. The birth-rate, according to the present estimated population, was
31.7 per 1000. The natural rate of increase, therefore, or excess of the
birth-rate over the death-rate was 14.7 per 1000. The following Table
shews the number of births and deaths registered during the past year
compared with the average of ten preceding years.
* In making this estimate justly, the mortality and population of the County
Lunatic Asylum, the House of Correction, and St. Peter's Hospital, whose inmates
(with a fractional exception) are derived from-without the parish, and undergo no
natural increase, are withdrawn from, aud the deaths of Wandsworth parishioners in
the Union Workhouse are added to, the calculation.—Sec Report for 1856, page 2.