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WANDSWORTH.
The following Statistics, derived as usual from an
analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns and the Public
Records of sickness and mortality, will be found on examination
to furnish satisfactory evidence that the health of
this Sub-district during the year 1876, although it did not
attain the exceptionally high position of the year preceding,
was in a very favorable state.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.—The mean population living during the
past year, estimated on the assumption that the same rate
of increase had prevailed since the period of the last census
as that which obtained during the preceding ten years,
was 23,169.
Mortality.—The total deaths registered during the
year numbered 461; 247 were of males and 214 of females.
115 of the number took place in the following public
institutions; viz., in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum,
94; in St. Peter's Hospital, 4; in the House of Correction
4; in the Hospital for Incurables, 12; and 1 in the Royal
Patriotic Asylum for Girls. In addition to the deaths recorded
on the register 21 deaths of Wandsworth parishioners
occurred in the Infirmary of the Union; these it is