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was by no means out of proportion, having increased to the
amount of one only, i.e., from 402 in 1873 to 403 in the
past year.
Increase of Population, Deatli-rate, &c.—The last
Census, taken in 1871, gave to this Sub-district a population
of 27,347. This was at a time when Small Pox raged
throughout the kingdom, and caused as many as 94 deaths
in this Parish, The consequence Was as many as 604 deaths
were registered in that year, which made the rate per 1000
as high as 22.0. In the following year the estimated
population was 28,154, and the death-rate 17.1 per 1000
persons living. This estimate, though it is made on the
basis of all the death-rate calculations of the Registrar
General, I regard as being too low; but this cannot be
actually proved until another Census.
In the year 1873, the population was calculated by the
same method to be 28,799, and a death-rate of 16.4 per
1000 inferred—an estimate which, I am still of opinion,
will be found much too low; but still it is one we are
bound to adopt for the sake of uniformity and to avoid
exaggeration.
In the year under notice (1874), the same calculation
being adopted, will bring the mean population of this Subdistrict
up to 29,444, and will consequently give a deathrate
of 17"9 per 1000, though, according to my own
estimate as above stated, it must be something less. Be
this as it may, when we see that the Registrar General's
estimated rate for the whole of London is 22.5, we must not
call even 18 per 1000, for such a populous district as
Clapham, a very formidable one.
Disease and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—
Table V. Appendix gives the proportion of deaths to the
number of cases falling under treatment during the year
amongst the Parish poor. It appears that there were as
F.