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Wandsworth 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF TlfE
ENTIRE DISTRICT, 1890.
5
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population. Taking as a basis for calculation the census
returns obtained in the spring of the year 1891, the
population of the Wandsworth District in the middle of
1890 is estimated as 151,736. The estimated population
in the middle of 1889 was 142,108 showing that the
population was really greater than the official estimate
during the last five years of the decade, as we have
stated in preceding reports. The enumerated population
at the census in 1881 was 103,172 and at the census in
1891, 156,931, an increase of 53,759 in the ten years.
Though the population has been under estimated the
difference has not been sufficient to materially affect the
birth and death rates calculated therefrom and which
ma)- therefore be compared fairly enough with those for
1890.