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HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
ENTIRE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT.
General Remarks.
In a sanitary point of view the past year (1872) has been
characterised in this District by two rather gratifying
circumstances—a greatly diminished intensity of disease
generally, and, as a consequence, a lower death-rate than
has been noted for some years past.
The total number of deaths registered in the entire
District during the year was 2,421, (1,203 of Males, and
1,218 of Females) which is less by the very large number
of 446 than appeared on the record of the previous year.
This is all the more satisfactory seeing how large has
been the increase of population in the interval.
The number of registered births was 4,540 (2,323 of
Males, and 2,217 of Females), giving an excess of births
over deaths of 2,119. Assuming then the population to have
amounted, in the middle of the past year, to 131,891, the
death-rate per 1,000 living will be found to be as low as
18.3! In the previous year the rate was 22.6 per 1,000,
or 4.3 above the present calculation.
The birth-rate, adopting the same mode of calculation,
is found to be 34.4 per 1,000, and the rate of natural
increase 16.1 per 1,000.
Taking the Registrar General's corrected figures of the
Census of 1871, as being for this District 125,060, the
following Table will exhibit for the past year the number
of inhabitants, the number of deaths, and the ratio of