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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this sub-district during the year 1884,
although affected by a greater mortality than during the
year preceding, was in a satisfactory condition, and bears
favourable comparison with that maintained on an average
of the preceding ten years, both as regards the amount of
mortality and the prevalence and fatality of epidemic
disease. The deaths that resulted from the latter and the
proportion that they bore to the total deaths were very
considerably less than the average number. Detailed
evidence of these conclusions will be found in the following
statistics derived as usual from an analysis of the Registrar
General's Returns and of the parochial Records of Sickness
and Mortality.
vital statistics.
Population.—Estimated according to the official method of
calculation, which assumes a continuance during the year
under review of the same rate of increase of the population
that prevailed during the preceding ten years, the mean
number of inhabitants of this sub-district during the past