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WANDSWORTH.
An analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns, and of
the parochial records of sickness and mortality, discloses
the ungenial fact that a high rate of sickness and death prevailed
in this Sub-district during the past year, and was
mainly attributable to a great prevalence and fatality of
epidemic disease.
Mortality, &c — The total number of deaths which were
registered as having occurred during the year 1868, were
194 of males, and 200 of females; total 394. 88 occurred
in the following public institutions: viz., 58 in the Surrey
County Lunatic Asylum; 7 in the House of Correction;
8 in St. Peter's Hospital; 3 in the Royal Patriotic Asylum
for Girls; 9 in the Hospital for Incurables; and 3 in the
Reformatory for Boys. 24 parishioners of Wandsworth
died in the Union Workhouse, Battersea. The number
of deaths is greater by 58 than the average of the past
ten years, corrected for increase of population, the population
being estimated upon the assumption that it has increased
since the period of the last census in the same ratio
that it had done during the preceding ten years. Looking,
however, to the very sudden and great augmentation which
has taken place in the birth-rate during the past two years
coincidental with a great increase in the number of inhabited
houses, there is strong reason for believing that
the increase in the population has occurred in a far higher
ratio by means of immigration.