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WANDSWORTH.
An exceptionally high rate of health prevailed in this
sub-district during the year 1889. The death-rate was
the lowest that has been recorded during the existence
of the Board of Works. With two or three slight and
unimportant exceptions this diminution of mortality
occurred amongst all classes of disease, but most notably
in the zymotic class, the fatality from which did not
reach one half of the average amount; altogether the
reduction in the number of deaths is equivalent to a
saving of no less than 180 lives, for had the same rate
of mortality that prevailed on an average during the
preceding ten years continued in the past year, there
would have resulted 64 more deaths from zymotic
diseases, and 116 more from other diseases than actually
took place. The following statistics, derived from the
Registrar-General's Returns and the parochial records of
sickness and mortality, will be found to furnish satisfactory
evidence of the above highly gratifying state of
the public health.
Vital Statistics.
Population.
Determined by the official method of the
Registrar-General, which assumes a continuance of the
same rate of increase of the population since the date of