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Wandsworth 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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75
REPORT
ON THE
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
ENTIRE DISTRICT, 1891.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population. The census enumeration taken in April,
1891, is used as the population from which the various
rates are calculated in this Report. The enumeration
gave 156,931. The population in 1881 was 103,172, so
that the increase in the ten years has been 53,759, or 52
per cent. The increase in the decade from 1871 to
1881 was 32,128 or 45 per cent., so that a considerably
higher rate of increase has been maintained in the last
decade.
Births. The total number registered was 4,477, of
which 2,301 were of males and 2,176 of females.