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mortality—death-rate.
The total deaths which were registered as having occurred
in this sub-district during the year 1864, numbered 311;
152 were of males and 159 of females; 87 occurred in the
following Public institutions; viz.—72 in the Surrey County
Lunatic Asylum; 11 in the House of Correction; 3 in St.
Peter's Hospital and 1 in the Royal Patriotic School for
girls; 30 Wandsworth parishioners also died in the Union
Workhouse.
The death-rate for the past year, calculated from the death
register and an estimated population, with due correction
for the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum and the Workhouse
after the manner described in previous Reports, was 19.12
per 1000 persons living, or nearly 2 per 1000 higher than
the average.*
birth rate—rate of natural increase.
The births registered during the year numbered 441,
242 males and 199 females. The birth-rate was 31.70 per
1000, and the rate of natural increase 12.58 per 1000 of
the entire population. Although the births of males were
in excess of the females during the past year, it is a somewhat
singular circumstance, and contrary to the natural law
which generally obtains in large communities, that the
births of females exceed those of males in this sub-district;
thus, during the past 14 years the births of 2598 females
but of 2490 males only were registered.
*The population is estimated upon the assumption that it has increased
since the period of the last census in the same proportion as it had done
during the preceding ten years. The inmates of the County Asylum are
derived (with a fractional exception) 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mortality of the Asylum are withdrawn from the calculation, and the
deaths of Wandsworth parishioners which occur in the Workhouse are
added to it.