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VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.—Calculated on the assumption that the
rate of increase of the population maintained the same
proportion as that which prevailed daring the preceding
ten years, the number of persons living during the past
year amounted to 23,806.
Birth-rate.—The births were 684 in number, 338 of
males, 346 of females. Calculated on the foregoing
estimate of the population, the birth-rate of the past year
was 29-90 per 1000 persons living of all ages. The rate
of natural increase was 17.31 per 1000.
Mortality.—The total deaths registered during the
year amounted to 384, or 35 less than the average of the
preceding ten years; 185 were of males, and 199 of
females. Of this number no less than 122 occurred in
the following public institutions, viz., in the Surrey County
Lunatic Asylum, 103 ; in the Hospital for Incurables, 13 ;
in St. Peter's Hospital, 1 ; in the House of Correction, 1 ;
in the Boys' Reformatory, 1 ; and in the Patriotic Asylum
for Girls, 3. In addition to the deaths recorded on the
Register, 21 deaths of Wandsworth parishioners took
place in the Infirmary of the Union, and were registered
in the parish of Battersea.
Death-rate.—The death-rate deduced from the total
deaths registered, and the estimated population, was 16.13
per thousand persons living, on an average, during the
year, or nearly 1 per 1000 less than that of rural districts.
But even this rate, highly favourable as it is in comparison
with the annual average rate of this Sub-district, exceeds
by nearly a fourth part what will be subsequently seen to
be the natural death-rate of the past year.