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LOCAL SUMMARIES.
WANDSWORTH.
An examination of the Public Mortuary Returns and
the Parochial Record of Sickness and Mortality, discloses
a somewhat less satisfactory condition of the health of
this sub-district during the year 1862 than has prevailed
on an average since the existence of the Board of Works.
The mortality was higher than usual; and the excess was,
unhappily, due to a greater fatality from those diseases
which it is the especial province of sanitation to prevent.
death-rate.
The total deaths which were registered as having
occurred during the past year numbered 273; 136 were
of males and 137 of females. The average number during
the preceding 10 years, corrected for increase of population,
was, exclusive of the cholera year (1854), 318;
inclusive of that year, 328. From the foregoing figures,
the mortality of the past year would appear to have been
much below the average ; but, as has been explained in
previous Reports, the death-register taken alone cannot
be accepted as a trustworthy exponent of the health of
this parish, in consequence of being unduly augmented by
the mortality of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum,
whose inmates are derived from the whole county of