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Ttirths—Birth-rate—Rate of Natural Increase. The total
number of births registered during the past year was
1,338—673 of males, 665 of females. This number,
which is greater by 83 than that of the previous year,
exceeded the average number of the preceding ten years,
allowing for increase of population, by 264. This excess
is 24½ per cent., and very pointedly indicates a
large accession to the population by immigration.
Calculated from the total births registered and the
foregoing estimate of the population, the birth-rate of
the past year was 41.96 per 1,000, and the rate of
natural increase 24.59 per 1,000 persons living.
Mortality. The total number of deaths registered during
the year was 610—295 of males and 315 of females,
and is less by 112 than that of the year previous, and by
8 than the average of the preceding ten years, raised
for increase of population. 127 of all deaths occurred in
the following institutions, viz:—in the County Lunatic
asylum 95; in the Hospital for Incurables 9; in St.
Peter's Hospital 3; in the Prison 13; in the Workhouse
6; and in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls 1.
In addition to the foregoing deaths recorded within
the sub-district, 67 deaths of Wandsworth parishioners
were registered as having occurred in the following outlying
institutions, viz:—in the Infirmary of the Union
44, and in the Metropolitan hospitals 25; these with
the sex, age, and cause of death of the deceased, are
exhibited in the following table :—