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subject to a very high mortality: The amount of the latter
alone, indeed, which during the past year exceeded twenty
per cent of all deaths, is sufficient to render valueless any
deduction of the death-rate derived solely from the registered
mortality unless the disturbing influences referred to be
taken into consideration.
In order therefore to determine the natural death-rate ot
the sub-district it is necessary to withdraw from the
calculation the population and mortality of the above-named
institutions and to add to it the deaths of Wandsworth
inhabitants that took place in Hospitals and other institutions
situated without the parish. Calculated in accordance with
the foregoing conditions the death-rate ot the past year was
17.88 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
Exclusive of the 19 deaths that occurred in the general
Hospitals the rate is 17.23 per 1,000, and is more properly
comparable with the recorded death-rates of previous years
which until last year, did not include those deaths; for the
latter are always more than compensated by the deaths of
persons who have come into the sub-district during the year.
(Exclusive of the deaths occurring in the various institutions
in Wandsworth, and of those belonging to this sub-district
which occurred in out-lying institutions, the death-rate was
14.67 per 1,000.)
Births, Birth-ratRate of natural increase.—The total
births registered were 1,072 = 562 of males and 510 of
females and were 137 above the preceeding decennial
average number corrected for increase of population.
Determined by the preceeding estimated population the
Birth-rate was 36.72 and the rate of natural-increase 18.84 per
1,000 persons of all ages.
The following table will be found to contain, as usual, a
nosological classification of all the causes of death, shewing
the sex, age at death at several periods, and the social
position of the deceased; and specifying the different
diseases of the zymotic class:—