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Wandsworth 1863

[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 fluctuations in the number of births and deaths in
a community, have, of course, a very important bearing
upon all sanitary enquiries; but the variations in the
number of marriages from year to year, is of no less
significance as a means of measuring human happiness
and social progress. I therefore, as in former years, commence
my report with a table, having for its object the
shewing of these fluctuations in a concise form, and for a
series of years, dating from 1856, the period at which the
Local Management Act came into operation.

Table: MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

Years.18561857185818591860186118621863
Marriages154151150156183182175181
Births527550533594608624622685
Deaths286321344328429390343355
Excess of Births over Deaths241229189266179234279330

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By the above Table it is seen that the marriages in this
sub-district during eight years have by no means kept
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