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14
WANDSWORTH.
An examination of the public records of Sickness and
Mortality shews that the health of this Sub-district
during the year 1869, as in the year previous, suffered
considerably from the effects of Epidemic disease, that the
amount of general disease was great, and the mortality
exceptionally high. A portion of this heightened mortality
was due (as will be seen further on) to the occurrence of a
greater number of deaths than usual in the public institutions,
whose inmates, it should be remembered, are derived
from without the Parish, and for the most part subject to
a very high mortality; but the bulk of it resulted from
the Epidemics which afflicted this locality in common
with the rest of the Metropolis, and indeed the whole
country, and the propagation of which cannot be regarded,
therefore, as attributable to any specially local causes.
The total deaths which were registered as having
occurred in this Sub-district during the past year were
429 in number, which is greater by 47 than the corrected
average of the previous ten years; 237 were of males and
192 of females. Ninety-eight occurred in the following public
institutions, viz. :—In the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum,
66; in the House of Correction, 12; in St. Peter's Hospital,
3; in the Hospital for Incurables, 12; in the
Patriotic Asylum for Boys, 1; in the Patriotic Asylum
for Girls, 2; and in the Reformatory for Boys, 2. The
average number in such institutions during the previous