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To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
We have the honour to present our Report for
the year 1887, on the vital statistics and sanitary condition
of the Wandsworth District.
The details given in the Introductory and the various
Local Reports shew that a higher standard of health is
being gradually attained, while the Sanitary work of
the District is being carried out on an increasingly large
scale and with greater efficiency and completeness.
As this is the last year in which Battersea will form
an integral part of the District, the following table
is given, as shewing very strikingly the enormous increase
in the rateable value and population of this
District since the year 1856 (when the Metropolis
Local Management Act came into operation), and at
the same time the decrease in mortality, especially from
zymotic diseases, which are most immediately under
the control of sanitary measures.
Rateable Value. Population. Death-rate
from
all Diseases. Zymotic
Death-rate
1856. 1887. 1856. 1887. 1856. 1887. 1856. 1887.
Battersea £79,100 £661,196 12,530 142,763 25.5 17.1 3.59 3.45
Clapham 82,500 256,486 18,200 43,045 15.7 13.9 2.14 2.3
Putney 35,000 137,463 5,800 15,690 16.4 12.5 2.33 0.44
Streatham & Tooting 68,519 315,396 9,700 38,226 11.5 1 1.7 1.54 2.2
Wandsworth 43,900 227,657 10,871 33,141 21.3 1 7.3 4.04 1.4
Whole District £299,019 £ 1,598,197 56,881 272,764 19.7 15.7 2.74 2.72
It has been laid down by Dr. Farr as a general law
that assuming the local conditions remain the same,
an increase in density of population is accompanied