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to 10,256, and if we assume the increase by immigration
to have been only double the natural increase, (which seeing
the number of new houses that have sprung up in the three
parishes since the census, is a very low estimate), not far
short of 10,600 would be tbe representative number upon
which to calculate the death rate of the year I am now
reviewing.
Upon the above data, therefore, the sub-district, notwithstanding
the unfavourable influences that have been
in operation, both causing and aggravating disease throughout
the country, will present a death-rate very slightly
over 16 in every 1,000 of the inhabitants.
zymotic diseases.
As already intimated, zymotic diseases have proved
during the year unusually fatal. Only 19 deaths were
registered from this class of maladies in 1862, but as
many as 36 (nearly double the number), appear in the
present Table.
Measles, and Fever of a low type, have together caused
16 deaths, or 11 over the number recorded in 1862, whilst
Small-pox, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, and
Diarrhoea, have proved fatal in 18 cases, or 7 over the rate
of the preceding year. Death, as usual, has been, in
respect to this group of diseases busy amongst infants and
very young children, 23 of the 36 who succumbed to them
having been under 5 years of age.
With reference to Small-pox, it may be stated that,
although but one death was registered during the year,
the cases treated in the three parishes of Streatham,
Tooting, and Balham, were far more numerous than they
ought to have been, looking at the facilities for efficient