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4
SANITARY STATE OF THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.
birth rate—rate op natural increase.
The Births registered in the entire Wandsworth District
during the year 1864, numbered 2727; 1428 of boys, and
1299 of girls. The Deaths were 1688; 843 of males, and
845 of females. The excess of births over deaths was
therefore 1039.
Calculated upon the assumption that the population has
increased during the past year, in the same ratio as it has
done during the preceding ten years, the Birth-rate
during the past year was 34.72 per 1000, and the Rate of
Natural Increase 13.23 per 1000 persons living of the
entire population.
mortality-death rate.
In presence of a high rate of natural increase, it is unsatisfactory
to find a record during the past year of a
mortality much higher than usual. The deaths exceeded
the average of the past ten years, corrected for increase of
population, by 219, or nearly 2 per 1000 ; the deathrate
having been 21.49 per 1000 persons living.
A similar excess of mortality, however, it should be
observed, was suffered by the entire Metropolis, and to
even a greater extent, the death-rate of which was greater
by upwards of 2 per 1000 than the average of the past
25 years, inclusive of the two years of epidemic cholera.
As in the Metropolis, also, the higher death-rate of this
District is not found to be dependent on the prevalence of
any special epidemic, or of a larger amount of epidemic
diseases than usual; indeed, on reference to Table IV., in the
Appendix, it will be seen that the ratio borne by deaths
from epidemic diseases to the deaths from all causes, during
the past year, was less by nearly 2 per cent. than the average
of the past 9 years. There was a greater fatality than usual
from Typhus, but not to an extent which would account
for the high mortality recorded. Unusual fatality is also