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WANDSWORTH.
In reviewing the sanitary condition of this Sub-district
during the past year, the same plan is here pursued as
that hitherto adopted, of presenting a summary of the
vital statistics and other principal facts necessary for the
purpose of illustrating the subject, arranged, as far as
practicable, in a tabulated form, for the sake of facility of
reference, and of comparison with those of former years.
It is highly gratifying to find, from an examination
of the statistical information, derived as usual from an
analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns, and the local
public records of sickness and mortality, that this Subdistrict
attained an exceptionally high standard of health
during the year 1877. The most trustworthy evidence of
this will be found in the occurrence of an unprecedentedly
low death-rate, a high rate of natural increase, and a
diminution in the amount of fatality from epidemic
diseases to the extent of nearly one-sixth of the average
amount.