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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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LOCAL SUMMARIES.
WANDSWORTH.
The health of this Sub-district during the year 1863, as
evidenced by the Mortuary Returns, and the Parochial
Records of Sickness and Mortality amongst the Poor, was
not in so satisfactory a condition as heretofore.
As in the entire District, and indeed in the Metropolis
generally, the mortality was higher than the average, such
excess having been principally due to diseases of the zymotic
class. Nevertheless, the increase of mortality is
small compared with that of most of the other Metropolitan
Districts.
mortality—death-rate.
birth rate—rate of natural increase.
The total deaths which were registered as having occurred
during the past year numbered 300; 149 were of males
and 151 of Females; 82 occurred in the following public institutions;
viz.—In the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum 58;
in the House of Correction 11; in St. Peter's Hospital 9;
and in the Royal Patriotic School for Boys 4.