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REPORT
of the Medical Officer of Health
for the Year 1913.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the health
and sanitary condition of the Borough for the year 1913.
Population.
The population of the Borough to the middle of 1913 has been
estimated by the Registrar-General to be 330,395, but in my opinion
this estimate is too high, as judging by the increase in the number
of rated hereditaments the rate of increase during the present
decennium is not so great as in the previous one.
During the decennium 1901-1911 the increase in the number of
rated hereditaments was 23,243, or an average of 2,324 per annum.
From the returns furnished by the Rating Department the increase
in the number of rated hereditaments in the year 1913 was only
917, and 960 in 1912, so that it is clear that the increase in population
will be considerably less than in the previous decennium.
Table I. shows the Census population in 1911 in each Ward, the
number of rated hereditaments and the number of persons per
rated hereditament in 1911, the rated hereditaments in 1913, and
the population estimated from the same. To this has been added
the natural increase, i.e., the difference between the number of
births and the number of deaths in 1911-12 and 1912-13.