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nevertheless deemed advisable, in order to ensure uniformity,
and to avoid even the appearance of exaggeration,
not only to adopt the official totals as they appear in the
Registrar General's Annual Summary of Weekly Returns,
but also to deduce from those figures the mortuary rate of
this District in the same way as is done for the whole
of London, and for all other towns and districts throughout
the kingdom, leaving it to each Health Officer to give his
own explanation of any exceptional or local circumstances
that may be considered by him to justify a departure from
the ordinary basis of calculation.
With these observations it may be stated that, the
deaths in the entire District having been 2,580 and the
population as above estimated, the annual death-rate
for 1873 was 18.7 per 1000 living, or 1 in every
53 of the inhabitants. The death-rate of the whole of
London was, for the same year, 22.5. The following table,
placing the five Sub-districts in the order of their greatest
rate of mortality, will exhibit, for the past two years, the
number of inhabitants, the number of deaths, and the ratio
of deaths to population, in each.
SUB-DISTRICTS.
Estimated
Population in the
middle of
Deaths.
Ratio of
Deaths to
Population.
Excluding Non-
Parishioners
who have Died
in Public
Institutions.
1872.
1873.
1872.
1873.
1872.
1873.
1873
Battersea 58,260 61,758 1,202 1,307 1 in 48 1 in 47 1 in 51
Wandsworth 20,703 21,284 365 433 1 in 57 1 in 49 1 in 59
Clapham 28,154 28,799 482 475 1 in 58 1 in 61 No appreciable difference
Streatham, Tooting, & Balham 15,027 15,456 228 240 1 in 66 1 in 64
Putney & Roehampton 9,807 10,101 144 125 1 in 68 1 in 81
The disturbing circumstances which unduly exalt the
death-rates of two at least of the five Sub-districts (Battersea