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Wandsworth 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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REPORT,
1883.
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF
THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.
The health of this district daring the year 1883 will be
found, on examination of the statistical and other
information presented in the following pages, to have been
in a very satisfactory condition; for although it did not
maintain the exceptionally low rate of mortality that
prevailed during the years 1881 and 1882, it was
nevertheless favoured by a death-rate very considerably
below the average, and bore advantageous comparison
with that of the years referred to by the possession
of a greater immunity from zymotic disease.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population:—The mean number of persons living
in this district during the year 1883, estimated from the
rate of increase that prevailed during the ten preceding
years, according to the method employed by the
Registrar-General, amounted to 229,566. The number
of inhabitants in the several sub-districts, of which this
total population is made up, is shewn in the table on
page 8.