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39
STBEATHAM.
I have the pleasure to announce that the public health
in Streatham attained a high standard in the year 1889.
The following statistics will I believe confirm this statement,
they relate exclusively to Streatham ; those who
may wish to compare the figures given in the several
tables for this year, with those of former years, must add
thereto the figures given in the summary for Tooting.
Vital Statistics.
Population. I estimate the population of Streatham at
40,000 persons living in the middle of the year 1889.
This assumes there was an increase of the population in
the same ratio as obtained in the inter-census decennium
1871—1881 on the enumerated population of the latter
year. That the population really exceeds this estimate
there is very little doubt. Mr. Bellamy, the Clerk to the
Vestry, informs me that there are 7,212 occupied houses
in the parish, this at the moderate computation of six
persons per house (for the last 20 years there have been
upwards of six per house) would give a population of
over 42,000 persons. The census of next year will clear
up any doubt on this score. Meanwhile I do not overstate
the case in placing tl>3 population at 40,000 in the
middle of the year 1889.