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CLAPHAM.
The population of Clapham, as enumerated at the
Census in April, 1881, was 36,380. If it be assumed,
in accordance with the method of calculation adopted by
the Registrar-General, that an increase has taken place
to the same extent since that period as had occurred
during the preceding ten years, the number of persons
living in this sub-district at the middle of the past year
amounted to 36,600. The numbers had increased therefore
at a higher rate than that adopted in my reports for
the last few years, and which I am pleased to find was
not exaggerated.
According to my usual mode of procedure, the brief
but comprehensive statistics contained in the following
Table of births, deaths and marriages, together with
such facts as are capable of being educed from parochial
official and other available records, are used as a basis
for my calculations in elucidating the health and sanitary condition of this sub-district.
Years.
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
Marriages
249
236
257
284
243
313
319
282
303
329
349
Births
864
858
929
937
965
1029
1019
1095
1125
1082
1059
Deaths
604
482
475
528
548
545
467
580
561
544
499
Excess of
Births over
Deaths
260
376
454
409
417
484
552
515
564
538
560