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WANDSWORTH.
The health of this sub-district during the year 1887
was in a very satisfactory condition. The total mortality
was unusually low, and the amount and fatality of
epidemic disease with its attendant loss of infant life
were greatly reduced. The only zymotic diseases which
prevailed epidemically were Measles and Diarrhoea, and
there was, with slight exception, immunity from the
epidemic of Scarlet-fever from which the Metropolis
generally suffered to so great an extent. The prevalence
of a low death-rate with a high birth-rate and a low rate
of infant mortality which, with other detailed statistics,
will be found recorded in the following pages, may be
accepted as trustworthy exponents of the high vital
status of the inhabitants of this rapidly-increasing suburb
during the past year.
Vital Statistics.
Population. Assuming that the population has increased
during the past year in the same proportion as it had
done during the ten years preceding the last census, the
mean number of inhabitants during 1887 amounted to
33,141.