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WANDSWORTH.
During the year 1892 there was much epidemic disease
present in this sub.district. Scarlet fever, Diphtheria, and
Erysipelas, all of which prevailed extensively throughout
the whole Metropolitan area, continued in unabated
amount. Measles increased in prevalence and fatality,
and Influenza recurred with much greater severity ; the
latter disease, both directly as well as by its consequent
affections of the breathing organs, contributing very
largely to the death.roll. As might be anticipated,
therefore, the mortality of the past year was higher than
that of its predecessor Notwithstanding these adverse
influences, the intensity of the first named disease,
although extensively prevalent was very slight, and
thus, in a measure, compensated for the severity of the
others, so that the death.rate although higher than that of
1891 will be found, on examination of the statistics set
forth in the following pages, to have still been greatly
below the average.
Vital, Statistics.
Population. Estimated in accordance with the method of
calculation adopted by the Registrar.General, which
assumes a continuance of the same rate of increase since
the period of the last Census as that which obtained
during the ten preceding years, the mean population of
this sub.district during the past year amounted to 49,032.