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WANDSWORTH.
The following Report will be found to contain, as usual,
a brief summary of the vital statistics and other facts
necessary for elucidating the sanitary condition of this
Sub-district during the year 1870.
An analysis of the Registrar General's returns, and of
the parochial records of sickness and mortality, shows that
a less favourable state of the health of this Parish prevailed
during that period than heretofore. This effect
appears to have been caused, to a very considerable
extent, by diseases of the respiratory organs, resulting
from a very inclement winter; but was for the most part
attributable to the severe epidemic of Scarlatina which
prevailed here, as elsewhere, during the year 1869, and
continued its progress with increased violence during the
whole of the past year.
Population.—The population of this Sub-district in
1841 numbered 7,614; in 1851 it numbered 9,611; in
1861, 13,346; and at the recently taken Census it
amounted to 19,797: so that during the ten years,
1841-51, it increased at the rate of 26 per 1,000 annually;
during the ten years, 1851-61, at the rate of over 38 per
1,000 annually; and during the past ten years, at the
annual rate of 48 per 1,000, nearly three-fifths of
which will appear to have been due to immigration. The
lately enumerated inhabitants consisted of 9,384 males,
and 10,413 females, the latter showing about the same