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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-rate in District per 1,000 of 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
„ „ 1887 15.77
Deaths in
Outlying
institutions, The deaths already enumerated do not
include those of inhabitants of this District
who have died in various hospitals and
other institutions outside the District. To a great 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, vagrants in lodging houses, &c., 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 Institutions
in which they occurred and the sub-district to which
they properly belong.