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Death-rate.—The death-rate of the past year,
calculated from the foregoing estimate of the population
and the number of registered deaths, corrected for institutions,
was 17.49 per 1000 persons living at the middle
of the year. This rate is 0.49 per 1,000 only, or less
than 5 deaths in 10,000, above the healthiest of rural
districts. Correction is made in the above calculation
for the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, St. Peter's Hospital,
and the Hospital for Incurables; and the necessity
for such correction arises from the circumstance that
the inmates of these institutions are almost entirely
derived from without the parish, undergo no natural
increase and are subject to a high mortality; the amount
of the latter (which formed 18 per cent. of all deaths
during the past year) being sufficiently great to cause
a death-rate, derived solely from the death register, to
fluctuate with the mortality of these institutions, and
therefore, fail to represent the natural death-rate of the
sub-district. On the other hand, correction is also made
for the deaths of Wandsworth parishioners who enter
the Infirmary and the Metropolitan Asylum District
Hospitals during the year and die there, and whose
deaths, therefore, do not appear on the Register. The corrections
referred to consist in the withrawal of the population
and mortality of the Asylum, St. Peter's Hospital,
and the Hospital for Incurables from the calculation,
and in adding to it the deaths of Wandsworth
parishioners that have occurred in the Infirmary and
the district hospitals. The death-rate, derived from the
death-register uncorrected for institutions was 18.70 per
1,000, a by no means high rate compared with most
suburban localities of corresponding density of population.
Births.—Birth-rate.—Natural increase.—The births
registered in the year numbered 972, 489 of males and
483 of females, yielding the unusually high birth-rate of
35.28 per 1,000. The excess of births over deaths,
which represents the natural increase of the population,
gives a rate of no less than 17.79 per 1,000.