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Wandsworth 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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CLAPHAM.
The year 1879 is the 24th year of the Medical
Officers' Report. The Registrar-General has included the
first few days of 1880 in his Annual Summary, so as to
reckon 53 weeks in the past year. The following
statistical table is presented as usual to give a comparative
view of the marriages, births and deaths for the present
year and the previous 10 years.
Years
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
Marriages
234
158
249
236
257
284
243
13
319
282
303
Births
838
867
864
858
929
937
965
1029
1019
1095
1125*
Deaths
508
480
604
482
475
528
548
545
467
580
561
Excess of
Births over
Deaths
330
387
260
376
454
409
417
484
552
515
564
* Of this number I successfully vaccinated in 368 cases.—J. M. D.
Referring to the above table, I may remark that the
marriages in 1879 exceeded those of the previous year by 21,
although they are fewer than the two previous years. The
births are in excess of any previous year, while the deaths