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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this sub-district during the year 1881
suffered in common "with the rest of the Wandsworth district
from a severe epidemic of Small-pox; notwithstanding
which, the rate of mortality was very considerably
below the average of the preceding ten years. Evidence of
this gratifying result is furnished by an examination of
the following statistics which have been derived, as usual,
from an analysis of the Registrar General's returns, and
from the parochial records of sickness and mortality.
Vital Statistics.
Population.—According to the official method of
calculation, which assumes that the population has increased
since the period of the last census at the same
rate as it had done during the ten preceding years, the
mean number of inhabitants of this parish during
the yeai% 1881 amounted to 28,202. This number,
owing to the very lecent date of the census, is doubtless
accurate.