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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Registrar General's weekly return, and 3.75 per 1,000
lower than the rate for all London (21.2), which was,
with the exception of that of the year 1850, the lowest
recorded within the annals of registration. A comparison
of the foregoing rates with those of the preceding
ten years, as shown in the following table, renders the
extraordinary lowness of the death-rate of the past year
strikingly apparent.

Table: Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural-Increase in the entire district during the eleven years1871-81.

Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural-Increase in the entire district during the eleven years1871-81.

Years.Births.Birth-rate per 1000.Deaths.Death-rate per 1000.Natural Increase.Rate of Natural Increase per 1000.
1871438034.5286722.60151311.9
1872454034.4242118.30211916.1
1873505336.4258018.70247318.0
1874522136.5279619.50242516.9
1875552937.3309620.87243316.4
1876599939.04315420.00284518.51
1877615938.6299118.70316820.0
1878650839.4327519.80323319.8
1879683339.7352620.50330719.23
1880703834.2359317.50344516.8
Mean of Ten Years 1871—80572634.13303018.06269616.07
1881758235.68364717.16393518.51