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STREATHAM,
including
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
The difficulties of making an approximate estimate of the
death-rate of this Sub-district are much lessened by the
last Census having been so recently taken (April, 1871).
The comments, therefore, that it will be necessary to make
upon the statistical tables need not be very lengthened.
The usual form of table showing the deaths and their
causes, registered in the past year, will be perused with
interest, since it exhibits the gratifying circumstance of
the mortality being less by 22 than in the preceding
year.
The number of registered deaths in the past year was
187, males 96, females 91. The registered births amounted
to 401, males 190, females 211. The natural increase of
the population is therefore greater by 31 than in 1870.
The increase by influx of new residents during the year
does not admit of quite such easy calculation on account
of its great fluctuation. Making, however, the estimate
upon the basis of an annual average increase, inclusive of
the natural increase, it would give a Death-rate of—as
near as need be calculated—a fraction under 13 per 1,000
persons living. The estimate of the preceding year was
14.7 per 1,000.
This is most satisfactory, and indicates an improving
sanitary condition of the Sub-district.
The table which follows affords precisely the same information
as those hitherto employed in these reports, and
well marks the number of deaths and their causes, together
with the sex, ages, and social positions of such of the
inhabitants as have succumbed, during 1871, to disease,
violence and accident.