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CLAPHAM.
Population. The population in the middle of 1892, estimated
in the usual way, is 44,711; it being assumed that the
same rate of increase is going on as obtained in the 10
years between the last two censuses.
Birth and Birth-rate
The number of births registered during the year
was 1,043, of which 523 were males, and 520 females.
This is a less number than in 1891, and only twice in the
last 10 years has a smaller number been registered. The
birth-rate was 23.3 per thousand, a lower rate than in any
of the last 10 years excepting 1890. The rate of natural
increase, calculated from the excess of births over deaths,
was 9.64 per thousand, again an unusually low figure.
It is interesting that the birth-rate for registration
London was the lowest recorded excepting, as in Clapham,
that of the year 1890; and the rate of natural increase is
also considerably below the average.
Death and Death-rate
The number of deaths registered was 611, of
which 288 were of males, and 323 of females. This
number is in excess of that registered in any year, and
gives a rate of 13.66, practically the same as in 1891.
Twenty of the deaths, however, were of non-parishioners,
and occurred in the British Home for Incurables and the
Home for the Dying in The Chase, leaving 591 as the
number of deaths of Clapham inhabitants, and giving a
corrected rate of 13.22 per thousand living.