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63
STREATHAM
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
In this Sub-district there were registered in the 53
weeks of the Registrar General's official year (1873) the
deaths of 240 persons (99 males and 141 females). In
the same period there were also registered 488 births
(248 males and 240 females), giving a natural increase to
the population of 248 persons, which is a much larger
addition than was made from the same source in the
previous year.
The death-rate, calculated in the usual way, and in
view of an increased population, is found to be 15.4 per
1000 persons living, the population being in the middle
of the year 1873 estimated at 15,579.
Zymotic Diseases.—From five of the seven principal
Zymotic maladies, viz., Measles, Scarlatina, Whooping
Cough, and Diarrhoea there resulted 29 deaths. From
Small Pox and Diphtheria there were happily no deaths
registered during the year, whilst in the previous report
two deaths are to be found recorded from these two last
named diseases. From Diarrhœa two more deaths than
in 1872 appear on the register, but in the aggregate the
deaths from this class of diseases were not much above the
average.