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Wandsworth 1862

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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CLAPHAM.
The Table of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, with which
I commenced my last annual report, and which I consider
of much statistical import, I here reproduce, adding to it
the figures relating to the year 1862.

Table: MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

Years.1856185718581859186018611862
Marriages154151150156183182175
Births527550533594608624622
Deaths286321344328429390343
Excess of Births over Deaths241229189266179234279

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By this Table it will be seen that the excess of births
over deaths has been much greater in the past year than in
any year since 1856, notwithstanding the marriages were
fewer in number than in the two preceding years. To account
for this last circumstance is somewhat difficult, but
possibly the unhappy differences that have sprung up
between employers and the employed may have had some
influence in reducing the number of marriages, as it is
everywhere found that such a result follows want of
employment and diminished wages. B