London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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year the excess was 257 only; hence a year of excessive
mortality in proportion to population has been made still
more manifest, the registered deaths in 1870 having been
480 only, whilst those in the past year (1871) numbered
no less than 604. It may be remarked that so large an
excess as 124 cannot be accounted for by any corresponding
increase of the population, for there are no grounds for
believing that any very extraordinary augmentation of the
number of inhabitants took place in the interval of this
and the previous Report.
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
| Years | 1801 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | J867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marriages | 182 | 175 | 181 | 227 | 221 | 310 | 244 | 272 | 234 | 158 | 249 |
| Births | 624 | 622 | 6S5 | 640 | 707 | 711 | 777 | 801 | 838 | 867 | 864 |
| Deaths | 390 | 343 | 355 | 408 | 393 | 425 | 451 | 450 | 508 | 480 | 604 |
| Excess of Births over Deaths | 234 | 279 | 330 | 232 | 314 | 286 | 326 | 351 | 330 | 387 | 260 |
Of the 604 registered deaths, the deceased persons were,
as to sex, nearly equal in numbers, an excess of 18 only
being found on the side of the females. Of the 864
births there were registered 458 males and 406 females,