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STREATHAM AND TOOTING.
Vital Statistics.
Population. I estimate the population of Streatham and
Tooting at 45,000 persons living in the middle of the
year 1868, and base my calculation on the following
grounds. There was an increase of 11,000 to the
population in the ten years before the last census,
giving a total of 25.553 in 1881. Assuming the same rate
of increase on the last named figures, in the eighth year of
the present inter-census decennium, there would be a
population of 46,000.
Mr. Bellamy, the Vestry Clerk, has been kind enough
to furnish me with the number of inhabited houses in
Streatliam, these he estimates at 6,711. Mr. Norris also
informs me that there are 994 occupied houses in Tooting,
thus there are in all 7,705 occupied houses in this subdistrict.
Allowing the moderate computation of six
persons per house we arrive at a population of 46.230,
these figures corroborate the first calculation. The large
increase in the number of births also support the foregoing
estimates, and indicate such a population as they would
imply; not to overstate the case however, I place the
population at 45,000 persons living in the middle of the
year 1888. v
Birth and The number of births registered during the
Birth-rate. 579 of males and 605 of
females. The birth-rate, calculated from the total number
of births and the foregoing estimate of the population
was 20.3 per 1,000 persons living during the year. The