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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this Sub-district during the year 1875,
considered both in relation to the prevalence and the
fatality of disease, was in a highly favourable condition.
Satisfactory evidence of this is furnished by the following
statistics, derived from an analysis of the mortality returns
of the Registrar General, and is corroborated by similar
data presented by the parochial records of sickness and
mortality; and it is gratifying to find, from an examination
of those trustworthy sources of information, that the high
standard of health which so obtained, was essentially
dependent on a diminution of the Zymotic class of diseases.
vital statistics.
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Population.—Assuming that the population has increased
since the period of the last census in the same
proportion as it had done during the preceding 10 years,
the mean number of inhabitants during the past year is
estimated to have been 22,524.
Mortality.—The total deaths which were registered
during the year were 420, in equal number of the two
sexes. No less than 127 of them took place in public
institutions, viz.:—In the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum
99; in the Hospital for Incurables 2; in St. Peter's Hospital
2; in the House of Correction 8; in the Reformatory
for Boys 3. 34 deaths of Wandsworth parishioners
occurred in the Union Infirmary, which do not appear
on the register of this parish, but on that of Battersea,