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Determined by the proportion which the
Proportion of
Births to mean number of births bore to the mean
Population Population during the ten preceding years,
the mean population of 1886 Would he 33,983, and the
birth.rate 36.97 per 1,000.
The two foregoing estimates taken in conjunction
with the unusually great increase in the number of births,
and the circumstance that the birth.rate for all London
was the lowest on record since 1850, furnish strong
presumptive evidence of the existence during the past
year of a much larger population than that determined
by the official mode of calculation which gives a birthrate
of 4040 per 1,000, and a rate of natural.increase—
(the excess of births over deaths) of 21.35 per 1,000.
Mortality. The total deaths registered during the
year numbered 722,—379 of males and 343 of females.
The annual average number during the ten preceding
years, allowing for increase of population, was 597. The
deaths in the past year therefore exceeded the average
by 125, or 20 per cent.
No less than 144 of the total deaths occurred in public
institutions, viz :—in the County Lunatic Asylum, 112;
in the Hospital for Incurables, 11; in St. Peter's
Hospital, 4; in the Prison, 14; and in the Workhouse,
3. In addition to the foregoing deaths that were
registered within the sub.district, 78 deaths of Wandsworth
parishioners took place in the following outlying
institutions, viz:—in the Union Infirmary, 58; and
20 in various Metropolitan Hospitals; these with the
sex, age, and cause of death are shewn in the following
table:—