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Wandsworth 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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WANDSWORTH.
The following vital statistics, derived from an analysis
of the Register of deaths and of the parochial records of
sickness and mortality, reveal the gratifying fact that the
health of this Sub-district during the past year underwent
a very marked improvement.
Death-rate, &c.—The total deaths which were registered
as having occurred in this parish during the year 1867,
numbered 332. 154 were of males, and 178 of females.
74 occurred in the following public institutions; viz., 46
in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum; l7 in the Hospital
for Incurables; 2 in the House of Correction; 2 in St.
Peter's Hospital; 3 in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for
Girls; 2 in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Boys; and 2
in the Boys Reformatory. 19 deaths of Wandsworth
Parishioners took place in the Union Workhouse, Battersea.
The deaths in these institutions are recorded separately in
order to show the amount of disturbing influence which
some of them exert upon the determination of the death-