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The steadily increasing number of new houses recently inhabited,
the high number of marriages and births, and the low
mortality recorded in this table are ample proofs of the prosperity,
as well as the satisfactory condition of the health and
progress of this sub.district.
The number of marriages though large shews a considerable
decrease on that of the last three years; it was nevertheless
higher than the average of the preceding ten years.
Births—Birth.rate.—In the past year there were 1085 births
or four more only than in the year preceding. They consisted
of 577 males and 508 females. In almost all my former reports
the female births ranged higher than the male, but in the
past year the male births are seen to have been 69 higher
than the female. The cause of this difference is not apparent.
The birth.rate was 28.25 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
Deaths—Death.rate.—580 persons—246 males and 334
females—died during the past year. Calculated from the
population, estimated according to the official method to have
been 38,406 at the middle of the past year, the death.rate was
15.10 in every 1,000 persons living.
In addition to the deaths registered during the past year,
as many as 81 deaths, 42 of males and 39 of females, took
place in the several Hospitals and Institutions of the
Metropolis. A few only of these deaths properly belonged to
the sub.district of Clapham. Inclusive of those deaths in
out.lying institutions the death.rate was 17.21 per 1,000.
The following table—a lucid annual report within itself—
shows the total number of deaths, and their causes, registered
during the year 1883, with the relative numbers of each class
of disease, and the sex, age, and social position of the
deceased.