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WANDSWORTH.
The exceptionally high standard of the health of this
sub-district during the year 1889 was not maintained in
the past year, which witnessed a great increase of sickness
and mortality. Such result was to be anticipated
as almost unavoidable in presence of the great amount
of epidemic disease which prevailed generally throughout
the whole metropolis. The increased mortality of
this sub district was mostly due to Measles and WhoopingCough—chiefly
the former, which was very fatal; to
which causes may be added Influenza, for although but
few deaths were recorded as having resulted primarily
from this disease, yet the unusually high fatality from
diseases of the Respiratory organs was doubtless either
proximately or remotely attributable to its effects. Notwithstanding
these adverse influences the heightened
mortality of 1890 occurred in such a greatly increased
population (as disclosed by the recent Census), that the
death-rate will be found on perusal of the following pages
to have been considerably below the average.
Vital Statistics.
Population.
At the Census taken April 5th, 1891, the
population of this Sub-district amounted to 46,720; in
1881 it numbered 28,005; in 1861 13,346; and in 1851
9,611; so that during the ten years 1851-61 it increased
at an annual rate of 38.8 per 1,000; during the ten
years 1861-71 at an annual rate of 48.2 per 1,000;