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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this sub-district during the year 1885
declined considerably from its usually high status.
A greater mortality occurred generally from all classes
of disease, with few exceptions; diseases of the organs
of respiration, including Consumption, and the epidemics,
Measles, Whooping Cough, and Diarrhoea, having
chiefly contributed to that result. The following statistics,
derived from an analysis of the Registrar-General's
Returns and of the parochial Records of Sickness and
Mortality, will be found on examination to furnish
evidence of the foregoing conditions.
Vital Statistics.
Determined by the official method of calculaPopuiatmn.
tion (which assumes the same rate of increase to
have occurred during the year under review as that
which prevailed during the preceeding ten years), the
population of this sub-district at the middle of the year
1885 numbered 31,497. The disproportionately great
increase, however, in the number of births that has taken
place during the past three years, and especially during