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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this Sub-district during the year 1873
was in a very favourable condition. Evidence of this is
furnished by an examination of the following statistics,
which are derived from an analysis of the Registrar
General's Returns and the parochial records of sickness
and mortality.
Statistics of Mortality.
The deaths which were registered in this Sub-district
during the past year numbered 433. 215 were of males
and 218 of females. No less than 119 took place in
public institutions; viz., in the Surrey County Lunatic
Asylum, 84; in the Hospital for Incurables, 12; in the
House of Correction, 12; in St. Peter's Hospital, 4; in
the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls, 5; and in the
Reformatory for Boys, 2. 22 deaths of Wandsworth
Parishioners occurred in the Infirmary which is situated
in the Parish of Battersea.
Death-rate.—Assuming that the population has
increased since the period of the last census in the same
proportion as it had done during the ten years preceding,
the rate of mortality during the past year, calculated from
the total deaths registered and a mean estimated population,
was 20.37 per 1000 persons living. But, as has
been explained in previous reports, the rate so obtained