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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
It is not without regret that with regard to the death-rate
of this sub-district for the year 1863, I am compelled to
speak somewhat more unfavourably than upon the last
occasion I had the honour of submitting similar statistics.
The following Table will clearly exhibit the causes of
death, and to what the increase of mortality has been due.
It will also shew that under almost every group of diseases,
particularly the zymotic, there have unhappily been registered
more deaths than for several years past, if we except
the year 1859, when the fatal cases amounted to within
four of the number recorded during the past year.
A note-worthy fact gathered from this Table is that
diseases having their seat in the brain and nerves, have
resulted in death in the large number of 29 instances. The
next largest number of deaths in the year appear to have
been due to diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive
of Phthisis. To Phthisis alone, 13 deaths were due.