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The following statistics derived for the most part from an
analysis of the Registrar-General's Returns and from the
local records of sickness, mortality, and sanitary operations
will, I believe, corroborate these observations and disclose more
fully the state of the public health in Streatham and Tooting
during the year 1884.
Vital Statistics.
Population.— Assuming the population of Streatham and
Tooting to have increased in the same ratio as obtained in
the ten years previous to the last census, it would amount to
29,149 in the middle of the year 1884.
As I have pointed out in former reports this, the official
method of calculation, does not sufficiently account tor the
increase of population from immigration into this rapidly
growing locality; I am disposed to think, judging from the
large number of new houses that have been built since the
census in 1881 and from the very high birth-rate of the year
under review, that the population exceeds the official estimate
by probably 2,000 and this under-estimate should be borne in
mind when the death-rate is considered, as both the birth.rate
and the death.rate are calculated from the official estimate
of the population.
Births & Birth-rate.—There were 1,138 births registered
during the year—544 of males 594 of females.
The birth.rate calculated from the total number of births
and the foregoing estimate of the population was 39.2 per