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and 48 in the Asylums Board Hospitals. The addition
of these 469 deaths to the 4,192 within the District raises
the death.rate to 18.7 per 1,000, as compared with 19.6
in the previous year.
It is interesting to note in what proportion to its
population each sub.district made use of these outlying
institutions for its sick, so far as this can be inferred
from the number of deaths.
Use of outlying In East Battersea, 2.68 per 1,000 of the
institutions population died in outlying institutions; in
by each West Battersea, 2.23 per 1,000 (in this
sub district. stnce the 76 deaths of inhabitants of West
Battersea which occurred in the Union Infirmary within
its borders have been included, in order to make the
rate comparable with that of the other sub.districts); in
Clapham, 1.88 per 1,000; in Putney, 2.01 per 1,000;
in Streatham, 1.25 per 1,000; and in Wandsworth,
2.47 per 1,000.
The following table is well worthy of study as bringing
out some further details in connection with the mortality
of the Wandsworth District. It gives the death.rate of
the several sub.districts, inclusive and exclusive of the
deaths in outlying institutions, shewing also the
amount and density of population, and the proportional
number of the industrial classes which each sub.district
possesses: —