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is valuable testimony; and since the Wandsworth District
is of the number of those referred to, it cannot be otherwise
than gratifying to find, that whilst the mean annual
rate of mortality of the southern districts collectively is
22.5 in every 1,000 living, that of this district individually,
is, as above stated, only 18.43 in the same
number.
A comparison of the mortality tables accompanying
the present local summaries with those for 1861, show,
with one exception, a considerable decrease in the deathrate
from the principal Zymotic diseases, and a very
notable one, throughout the entire district, as regards
the number of fatal cases amongst infants and children
under 10 years of age.
SICKNESS.
By assuming the proportion which the deaths bear to
the cases of sickness amongst the poor, as a measure of
the proportion which the total deaths bear to the total
cases of sickness amongst all classes, it is estimated that
the amount of sickness under treatment, throughout the
district, during the past year, was 58 per cent. on the
population, and that one in every thirty attacks of sickness
terminated fatally.
sanitation.
As may be seen by referring to Table VI. in the Appendix,
a large amount of sanitary work has, as usual, been accomplished
during the past year, the good effects of which it
is hardly necessary to point out have been most apparent
in those parishes in which the greatest extent of drainage,
water supply, scavengering, paving, and other desirable
sanitary measures have been made to reach the abodes of