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mortality.
Assuming the population of the entire District to have
increased in the same ratio since the last census as it did
during the preceding ten years, the rate of mortality for
the past year would be 20.17 per 1000 persons living, or
one per 1000 greater than the average.
Calculated upon the same basis, the birth-rate was 34.78
per 1000 of all ages, and the rate of natural increase 14.61
per 1000.
Of the five groups of districts into which London is
divided by the Registrar-General, the West, South, and
North exhibit for the past year the lowest death rates per
1000, viz., 2324 in the first group, 23.37 in the second,
and in the last 23.81. The death-rate of the entire
Wandsworth District being 20.17, it is a matter for considerable
congratulation that this district individually
presents a difference of more than two per 1000 under the
rate of any one of these groups collectively, including the
group (the South) of which it forms a part.
The East and Central districts show a death-rate respectively
of 26.55 and 26.64 per 1000, so that comparing
the rate of the entire Wandsworth District with that of
either the last-named groups, it will give no fewer than 6
per 1000 as the favourable difference.
sickness.
It is calculated that the cases of sickness under treatment
amongst all classes throughout the District was not less,
during the past year, than 60 per cent. of the population;
and that one in every 27 attacks of sickness proved fatal.
This calculation (which is approximate only) is arrived
at by taking the proportion which the deaths bear to the