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It will be seen from this table that the death-rate is
1.29 per 1,000 less than the decennial average. It is
also 3.84 per 1,000 less than the rate for the 28 great
towns of England and Wales, and 2.84 per 1,000 less
than that for the whole of the Metropolis.
A glance at the following table shews the striking
diminution in the mortality of this District since the
year 1851, notwithstanding the tendency to raise the
mortality which an increasing density of population
always exerts.
Death-rates in District per 1,000 oe the Population.
During 10 years, 1851—60 20.40
„ „ 1861—70 19.34
„ „ 1871—80 18.06
During the year 1881 17.16
1882 17.42
1883 17.49
„ „ 1884 17.85
,, ,, 1885 16.87
„ „ 1886 17.06
Deaths in The deaths already enumerated do not
institutions, include those of inhabitants of this District,
who have died in various hospitals and
other institutions outside the District. To some extent
the absence of these deaths from our tables of
mortality is doubtless counterbalanced by the death in
the Wandsworth District of temporary immigrants
from the country, and by the mortality in the public
institutions of West Battersea and Wandsworth. In
the following table the deaths occurring in Outlying
Institutions have been arranged according to the
character of the Institution in which they occurred
and the sub-district to which they properly belong.