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STREATHAM,
including
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
Notwithstanding the increase of population of this subdistrict
since the last annual report, the mortality was
one less in the past year than it was in 1861. The natural
increase of the population, as shewn by the excess of
births over deaths in the year 1862, is 137. If then, we
add to this only about a third of that number as the increase
by new residents since the census of 1861, it may
be safely assumed that the inhabitants now number
10,250, at the very least. The registered deaths of the
past year having amounted to 129, it follows that the
death-rate for the year, under review, must have been
only a fraction above 12 in every 1,000 living. This is all
the more satisfactory, seeing that amongst the labouring
classes the deaths have, for some years past, been
gradually diminishing, thus confirming the inference
that the sanitation carried out under the direction of your
Board—especially the sewerage—must have been of no
small benefit to those who always suffer the most from
preventible diseases. In the past year, 10 less of the
labouring class have succumbed to disease, accident, &c.,
than in 1861, and 14 less than in 1860.
The appended Table of mortality embodies, as usual,
a large amount of information in a concise form; and as
it exhibits the classified causes of death, as well as the
sex, age, and social position of the deceased persons, it