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HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
ENTIRE DISTRICT.
General Remarks.
The unusual fatality that has attended Small Pox, Scarlatina,
Whooping Cough, and some other Zymotic diseases
during the past year (1871), throughout the country, has
happily not increased in any very marked degree the deathrate
of the entire Wandsworth District.
An examination of Tables I. and II., in the Appendix,
will show that during the past year the population was
increased, apart from its augmentation by the influx of
new residents, by the births of 4,380 infants, and was,
during the same period, diminished by the deaths of 2,867
of the inhabitants. The gain, therefore, by what is termed
the natural increase, as shown by the excess of births over
deaths, was 1,513. The other source of increase, or that
by immigration, has, there is every reason to believe, added
a very large number to the population, even since the last
Census was taken, when it was ascertained to be 125,050,
or 54,647 in excess of the enumeration of 1861.
But adopting, as usual, the Registrar General's method
of calculation, and assuming the increase of the population
of the entire Wandsworth District in the interval of the
last Census and the middle of the year 1871, to have
been in the same ratio as that of the average of the ten
preceding years, a death-rate of 22.6 per 1000 is deducible.
The death-rate for all London was 24.7 per 1000, or 2.1
above that of this District.
By employing the same method of calculation, the birthrate
is found to have been 34.6, and the rate of natural
increase 11.9 per 1000.