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SANITARY CONDITION OF THE ENTIRE
DISTRICT.
A comparison of the local and general tables of mortality
in the present with those in former reports, puts us in
possession of the unsatisfactory circumstance of a large
increase of mortality having befallen the District in 1866,
due almost entirely to the prevalence and fatality of
Zymotic diseases, especially of Cholera and Diarrhœa.
The excess of deaths from the principal diseases of the
Zymotic class over the number recorded in 1865, is 90, (see
Table IV., Appendix,) and the ratio of deaths from these
epidemics to the total deaths from all causes is 21.3 per
cent., corresponding as nearly as possible with the per
centage of 1859, but still being less than in 1863, when
the ratio was 29.9 per cent.
The population of the entire Wandsworth District for
1866 has been variously estimated, but that given by the
Registrar General is 82,979. The death rate of the year
(the deaths being 2,072) is therefore 24.97 per 1,000 persons
living. It is satisfactory to note, that high as this rate
appears to be, it is lower by 3 than the average of 13 of
the largest towns in the United Kingdom.
The birth rate per 1,000 is found to have been 37.12,
and the rate of natural increase 10.54 per 1,000 of the
entire population.