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Wandsworth 1874
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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STREATHAM
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
The public health of the Sub-district, which includes
the Parishes above-named, has been, during 1874, in a
very favourable condition. Less deaths by 10, notwithstanding
the increase of population, were registered during
the year, and the death-rate was calculated to be 14.5 per
1000 persons living, instead of 15.5, which it had attained
in the previous year. According to the method of calculation
of the Registrar General, the population increased
between the middle of the year 1873 and the same period
of 1874, from 15,456 to 15,905, the deaths having numbered
230, and the births 465. The excess of births over deaths
Avas, therefore, 235, constituting the natural increase of the
population. The births, it seems, fell short of the number
registered in the previous year by 23, a circumstance which
may appear somewhat strange, seeing how large must have
been the influx of new residents during the year; but it
can be shown that this is not peculiar to this Sub-district,