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WANDSWORTH.
Population.
The estimated population for the year 1897
was 61,251, an increase of 2553 compared with 1896.
From this has to be deducted the population of the
various institutions in the parish, this being at the
census of 1896, 3906; giving a corrected population of
57,345.
The population, calculated from the number of
inhabited houses in 1897, and the number of persons per
inhabited house at the census of 1896, would have been
58,485.
The first method is that adopted by the Registrar
General, and it is on these numbers that all the rates
given in this report are based.
Births and
Birth-rate.
During the 52 weeks ending 1st January,
1898, the births registered were 1,822, viz:
males, 915, and females, 907, an increase of 68,
compared with 1896, but a decrease ol 151 compared
with the decennial average, corrected for increase of
population.
The birth-rate was 31.77 per 1,000, an increase of
.36 per 1,000 compared with 1896, but 3.84 per 1,000
under the decennial average.
124 births took place in the workhouse, of which
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