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Surrey, and are sufficiently numerous to cause, by the
fluctuations in their mortality, a notable disturbance of
the death-register. Thus the mortality of the Asylum
may be high, and the death-register consequently high,
although the actual mortality proper to this parish may
be low. The converse of this obtained last year. The
mortality of the Asylum, as in the previous year, formed,
in consequence of correspondingly fewer admissions, about
one-sixth part of all deaths, in the place of about onethird
which it averaged before that period; and it is this
circumstance which causes the apparent lowness of the
mortality of last year. The register also fails to show
the deaths of Wandsworth parishioners who die in the
workhouse; which, on account of the workhouse being
situated in Battersea, are registered in that parish. In
consequence of the foregoing conditions, the plan which
has been adopted in determining the natural death-rate
of this parish has been to exclude from the calculation the
population and mortality of the Asylum, except such as
is due to Wandsworth, and to add to it the deaths of
Wandsworth parishioners which have occurred in the
Workhouse. The death-rate for the past year, calculated
in the manner just explained, was 18.61 per 1,000
persons living, or 1 per 1000 (nearly) higher than the
average of the previous ten years.
Birth-Rate—Rate of Natural Increase.
The total births registered during the past year
numbered 393, consisting of 197 males, and 196 females.
The average of the preceding 10 years was 383. The
birth-rate was 31 per 1,000, and the rate of natural
increase, 12.67 per 1,000 of the entire population.