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The following statistics will, I believe, corroborate
these observations and shew more fully the state of the
public health in Streatham and Tooting during the year
1885.
Vital Statistics.
Population.
According to the official estimate, which
assumes an increase of population in the same ratio as
obtained in the ten years previous to the last census—
the population of Streatham and Tooting in the middle
of the year 1885 would be 30,280. I have reason to
believe that the population has increased in a higher
ratio than prevailed in the decade ending 1881. A large
number of new houses have been built since then, and
the births have increased in such proportion as to show
that there has been a very considerable accession to the
population from immigration. This increase is not
shown in the official mode of calculation, but it ought to
be noticed, as the death-rate is unduly augmented in
consequence.
Births and
Birth-rate.
The number of births registered during
the year was 1,078 ; 525 were of males, and
553 of females.
The birth-rate calculated from the total number of
births and the foregoing estimate of the population was
35.6 per thousand persons living during the year, as
compared with 39.2 per thousand in the previous year.
Natural
Increase.
The excess of births over deaths represents
the natural increase. The excess this year is
717, giving a ratio of 23.6 per thousand of the population.