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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this Sub-district during the year 1878,
considered whether in relation to the nature the amount
or the fatality of the sickness which prevailed, was
eminently satisfactory. Although the mortality exceeded
that of the year preceding (which, it will be remembered,
was unprecedentedly low), it was still very low in comparison
with the average, and bears favourable comparison
with the latter in the more important circumstance of
representing a very much less amount of fatality from
diseases of the epidemic class. Satisfactory evidence of
the attainment of this high standard of health will be
found on an examination of the following statistics which
have been derived, as usual, from an analysis of the
Registrar-General's Returns, and the local public Records
of sickness and mortality.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.—The number of the inhabitants first
claims attention, for as the correctness of the death-rate