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The Death-rate for the past year, calculated from the
Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality, and an estimated
population, with due correction for the Surrey County
Lunatic Asylum and the Union Workhouse, after the
manner described in previous Reports was 18.74 per 1000
persons living; closely approximating, therefore, to that of
the preceding year, which was about one in a thousand
higher than the average. The population is estimated
upon the assumption that it has increased since the
period of the last census in the same ratio as it had
done during the decenniad 1851—61. The inmates of
the Asylum are, with a fractional exception, derived
from without the parish; and the deaths of Wandsworth
parishioners in the Workhouse are registered in Battersea,
in consequence of such building being situated in that
parish. For these reasons, in estimating the death-rate,
the population and mortality of the Asylum are withdrawn
from, and the deaths of Wandsworth parishioners
in the Workhouse are added to, the calculation.
The total births registered during the past year numbered
444; 198 of males and 246 of females. The Birthrate
was 33 per 1000 of the entire population. The Rate
of Natural Increase was 13.69 per thousand, being one in
a thousand higher than the year previous.