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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this Sub.district during the year 1883,
considered whether in relation to the nature, prevalence and
fatality of disease, or other exponents of its condition, was
eminently satisfactory. The death.rate was unusually low;
there was no special epidemic; the amount and fatality of
zymotic disease were much less than the average, and infant
mortality correspondingly diminished; while there was a
greater prolongation of life as represented by a higher rate
of senile mortality. Illustration of the existence of this high
status of health will be found in the following statistics
derived, as usual, from an analysis of the Registrar.General's
Returns and the parochial Records of sickness and mortality.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.—The mean number of persons living in this
Sub.district during the year 1883, estimated according to the
method employed by the Registrar.General, amounted to
29,853. In this estimate it is assumed that the rate of
increase of the population has maintained the same
proportion since the period of the last Census as that which
obtained during the ten years preceding it.