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WANDSWORTH.
The following statistics, derived as usual from an
analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns and the
Parochial Records of sickness and mortality, will be
found on examination to reveal the occurrence in this
sub-district, during the year 1882, of an unusually large
amount of epidemic diseases, principally WhoopingCough,
Measles, and Diarrhoea, by which much loss of
infant life was sustained. Notwithstanding the greater
fatality from these diseases, and, as might be anticipated,
the consequent increase in the total mortality, the latter
will be seen to have but slightly exceeded the average
amount.
Vital Statistics.
'Population.—During the year 1882, the mean
number of the population, estimated, according to the
usual method, from the rate of increase that prevailed
during the 10 years preceding the period of the last
census, amounted to 29,031.
Mortality.—The number of deaths registered was
544; 261 of males and 283 of females. The mean
annual number of deaths during the preceding 10 years
was 445, so that, had the same rate of mortality been
maintained during the past year, the number of deaths,
allowing for increase of population, would have been
540; the deaths of the past year therefore, exceeded,
the decennial average by 4. Of the total number, 105
occurred in the following public institutions : viz., in the
Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 89; in the Hospital for
Incurables, 6; in St. Peter's Hospital, 3; in the Prison,
5; in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls, 1; and in
the Reformatory for Boys, 1. In addition, the deaths of
37 Wandsworth parishioners, who went into the Infirmary
of the Union during the year were registered in
Battersea, in which parish the Infirmary is situated.