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REPORT ON THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE SEVERAL PARISHES
COMPRISED IN THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT.
1866.
Erratum at Page 4, Paragraph 3.
Since the issue of the above Report, an error has been
discovered in the calculation of the death-rate of the entire
District which, it is considered, necessitates the following
brief explanation:—
The calculation referred to is that of the Registrar
General, and was taken from a Table at page 18 of his last
Annual Summary, and accepted, unquestioned, by the
Medical Officers of Health.
The error consists in 26.58 per 1,000 persons living
being given as the death-rate of the entire District in the
place of 24.97 per 1,000, the true result of the figures
employed.
Assuming, however, as a fair basis of calculation
that the population of the entire District has increased
in the same ratio since the period of the last census as it
had done during the preceding ten years, the death-rate
of 1866 was 249.97 per 10,000, or in round numbers 25
per 1,000 persons living.
But it should be observed that as the population has so
disproportionally increased by the influx of new residents
since the period of the last census, the foregoing estimate
must be accepted as greatly above that which the Medical
Officers of Health, from their local knowledge of the extent
of immigration in their respective Sub-Districts, believe to
be correct.
Septr. 13th, 1867.