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PROPORTION OF BIRTHS TO DEATHS.
The births registered in the year under notice (vide Table II.,
Appendix) number 271—137 males and 134 females—which is 33
more than in either of the years 1859 or 1860. The deaths being,
as before stated, 128, it follows that the excess of births over deaths
is as great as 143. If such a rate of natural increase were continued
it would in ten years add to the population, apart from the
increase by immigration, 1,430 souls.
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY AMONGST THE UNION POOR.
Table V., Appendix, exhibits the number of cases and character
of the sickness treated by the Union Medical Officers of this subdistrict.
A most favourable rate of mortality is exhibited in this table,
inasmuch as only 10 deaths resulted in 269 cases of sickness,
accident, &c., recorded in the medical relief books, which is 10 less
than occurred in 247 cases that came under medical treatment
in 1860.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The whole of the slaughter houses were carefully inspected
during the year, and found to be kept in a very creditable state as
to cleanliness and the possession of all those requirements insisted
upon in the regulations issued by your Board.
SANITARY OPERATIONS, &c.
In all the three divisions of this sub-district a number of very
necessary, and in many cases indispensable, sanitary improvements,
tabulated under the heads of drainage, water supply, removal of
nuisances, &c., have been carried out (vide Table VI., Appendix)
to the undoubted great advantage as well as to the increased
comfort and health of the inhabitants.
Although the good accomplished, as evidenced by the very
favourable report I am enabled to furnish, should be a source of
considerable congratulation, still I am bound to recommend that
similar improvements and sanitary works should be carried forward
in coming years, if it be wished to maintain the reputation for
healthiness which this sub-district, by attention to these matters,
has already gained.
D. C. NOEL,
Medical Officer of Health for Streatham, Tooting, and Balham.