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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
BALHAM AND TOOTING.
The following statistics derived for the most part from an
analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns, show the state
of the public health in this sub-district during the year, 1883.
The death-rate includes this year for the first time, the
deaths of those Streatham parishioners who died in the Metropolitan
Asylum District Hospitals, Outlying Institutions, and
Union Infirmary, thus adding about 1 per 1,000 to the death.
rate ; even with this addition, the rate is by no means a high
one, and it is doubtful if ever again from increasing density of
population so low a death-rate will be recorded as obtained
in 1881 and in 1882.
Though the total deaths from Zymotic diseases exceed the
average, several of the diseases in this class shew a marked
decline in intensity: r.otably, three of the 7 principal Epidemic
diseases, viz:—Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, and Whooping.
Cough.
Vital Statistics.
Population.—The population of Streatham and Tooting in
the middle of the year 1883, was 28,042, assuming that it
has increased in the same ratio as obtained in the ten years
previous to the census in 1881.
This the official method of calculation accounts for little
more than the natural increase of the population; whereas I
have reason to believe that the number of inhabitants is in
excess of this estimate and should rather be put at 30,000, and