Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Sub.district of Putney and Roehampton.
lying institutions, and to subtract the number of deaths
of non.parishioners which were registered within our
area.
The corrected death.rate thus obtained is 13.3.
TABLE I.
Birth and Death Rates.
YEAR.
Births.
Birth.rate.
Deaths
from all
Causes.
Death.rate.
Rate of
Natural
Increase.
1891
479
25.4
234
13.1
12.3
1892
447
26.9
213
11.9
15.0
1893
462
24.5
247
13.5
11.0
1894
455
24.7
256
13.6
11.1
1895
472
23.7
190
9.9
13.8
1896
468
24.0
258
13.1
10.9
1897
510
22.7
252
12.2
10.5
1898
561
25.8
268
12.3
13.5
1899
543
244
287
12.9
11.5
1900
652
24.2
264
11.5
12.7
Rate of The excess of the birth.rate over the death.
Natural Increase. rate was 12.7
Deaths in 53 deaths occurred in outlying institu.
institutions tions, the same number as during the
previous year. Five of these deaths
resulted from diseases of the Zymotic class, a decrease
of four as compared with the previous year.