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WANDSWORTH.
An examination of the following statistics, derived from
an analysis of the public records of sickness and mortality,
reveals the gratifying fact that the health of this
Sub-district during the year 1872, considered both with
regard to the amount of sickness which prevailed and its
fatal results, was in a highly satisfactory condition; and it
is matter for much congratulation that this heightened
vitality has been due to the diminution of those diseases
which it is the especial object of sanitation to mitigate and
prevent.
Statistics of Mortality, &c.—The total deaths which
were registered as having occurred during the past
year numbered 365:205 were of males and 160 of
females. 105 of them took place in the following public
Institutions; viz., in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum,
85; in the House of Correction, 8; in the Hospital for
Incurables, 7; in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls,
4; and in St. Peter's Hospital, 1. 33 deaths of
Wandsworth parishioners occurred in the Workhouse,
which is situated in the parish of Battersea. Calculated
from the total number of deaths which occurred, and