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STREATHAM,
including
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
I regret I am unable to present quite so satisfactory a
Report for 1868 as I did for the previous year.
There are recorded in the table of mortality of the
present report 160 deaths, against 156 in that of 1867.
Of these 160 deaths, 81 were of males, and 79 of females.
The number of registered births was 342 (males 176,
females 166). There was therefore an excess of births
over deaths of 182, or 70 beyond the excess of the previous
year. To this somewhat large natural increase of the
population must be added a much larger one accruing from
immigration. The occupation within the past year of a
large number of newly erected houses fully justifies the
belief that since 1867 to the present time, the number of
inhabitants has been augmented to nearly double the extent
of many previous years—indeed, when the next census
shall have been taken (as it will doubtless be in about three
years from this time) there are good grounds for thinking the
increase of the ten years interval will considerably exceed
the general anticipation, and will be such as to enable me
to congratulate the inhabitants upon a small and highly
satisfactory death-rate.
Commencing this report with the usual table of mortality,
which is so constructed as to afford every facility for comparison
with the mortuary statistics of previous years, it
may be remarked, that although the increase of deaths from
all causes in 1868 over the number registered in the previous
year amounts to 4 only, it is still a matter for very
great regret that the mortality due to Zymotic diseases
alone should in the past year have more than doubled that
of the preceding one.