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Wandsworth 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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The following Table shews the death-rates of the several sub-districts in relation to the density of population and the proportional number of the industrial classes which each sub-district possesses :—
| SUB-DISTRICTS. | Population in the middle of 1882 | Per-centage of Total Population | Deaths | Death-rate per 1000 | * Death-rate per 1000, Excluding Nou-Parishioners who have Died in Public Institutions. | Density of Population—No. of Persons to Acre | Relative Number per cent, of Industrial and Other Classes, Census, 1881. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrl. Classes | Other Classes | |||||||
| Battersea | 113,909 | 61.5 | 2,214 | 19.44 | 18.17 | 48 | 84.0 | 16.0 |
| Clapham | 37,502 | 17.0 | 544 | 14.53 | No appreci- able difference | 30 | 49.2 | 50.8 |
| Putney | 13,689 | 6.2 | 208 | 15.19 | 6 | 47.3 | 52.7 | |
| Streatham | 26,935 | 12.2 | 341 | 12.65 | 7 | 48.5 | 51.5 | |
| Wandsworth | 29,031 | 13.1 | 544 | 18.70 | 17.49 | 11 | 73.9 | 26.1 |
The same great difference is, as usual, observable
between the several rates. A certain, and by far the
greater amount of this difference proceeds from the
relative social position and density of the population of
the several localities, and must be accepted within certain
limits as a condition not amenable to sanitary control
(see Report for 1881, page 8 & seq.). Irrespective
of such difference, however, there is always the variation
that results from the greater or less prevalence of
* This correction is necessary in consequence of the undue exaltation of the
rates of Battersea and Wandsworth by the mortality of the Union Infirmary in the
former, and of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, St. Peter's Hospital, and the
Hospital for Incurables, in the latter sub-district.