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STREATHAM,
including
TOOTING AND B ALII AM.
In preparing the report for the year 1860, we have the advantage
of being able to avail ourselves of the census just accomplished. The population
of the whole of this sub-district numbers 10,082, the increase in the
last ten years being 1,059; at the same time it must be remarked that there
are fewer inhabitants in Tooting Graveney by 67, than at the census of 1851.
The inhabitants of Streatham, including Balham, were 6,901 in 1851; now
they number 8,027,—whilst the population of Tooting Graveney was 2,840
in 1841, 2,122 in 1851, and only 2,055 for 1860. The decrease in the
Tooting district may be accounted for in a measure by the removal of several
large schools out of the locality. The females outnumber the males by 1,496
for the whole sub-district,—the male population being 4,293, and the females
numbering 5,789.
The registered mortality during the year 1860 was 152 (80 males and 72
females) being 24 in excess of the average for the four years preceding, but
less than for the year 1859, by 17. The large number of deaths of persons
of 60 years of age and upwards, viz., 54, strikes one as being exceptional, and
especially the fact of 15 of the number having been upwards of 80 years of
age.
I am happy in being able to state that the mortality of infants and children
has been below the average, and much lower than during the year 1859, when
70 deaths were registered, whilst only 46 were recorded in 1860.
The accompanying table will show the number of deaths from all causes,
and amongst all classes and ages. It will be seen that only three deaths are
placed against scarlatina and diphtheria—whilst 25 was the total for 1859.
The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class in the seven principal forms, were
12 in number, two of the sufferers dying from small pox, two from measles,
two from whooping cough, and three from diarrhoea. Phthisis carried off
one less than last year, viz., 20 against 21, whilst in 1857 and 1858, 8 and
11 were the deaths registered under this head.