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86
of Wandsworth parishioners took place in the Infirmary
of the Union, and were registered in Battersea, the
Infirmary being situated in that parish ; while 9 deaths
occurred amongst the patients who were sent from this
parish to the Asylum District Hospitals. In order,
therefore, to arrive at the natural death-rate of this
parish with any degree of accuracy, it is found necessary
to make correction for the foregoing sources of error by
withdrawing the mortality of the above institutions,
together with their population, from the calculation, and
by adding to the latter the deaths of Wandsworth inhabitants
who went into the Infirmary and the Hospitals
during the year and died there. After correction in the
manner indicated, the death-rate for the past year was
17'43 per 1,000 persons living, or .43 per 1,000
only above the healthiest of the rural districts: without
such correction it was 17.97 per 1,000, which is a low rate
compared with those of other suburban localities, and is
considerably less than the average of the past ten years.
The following table contains, as usual, a summary
of all the causes of death arranged in accordance with
the classification of the Registrar-General, showing the
sex, social position, and ages at death at different periods,
and particularizing the several diseases of the Zymotic
class:-