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WANDSWORTH.
The following statistics, derived, from an analysis of
the Registrar-General's returns and the parochial records
of sickness and mortality, show that, notwithstanding
the prevalence of an epidemic of Scarlatina of considerable
extent and severity, an unusually low rate of
mortality and a high rate of natural increase obtained in
this sub-district during the year 1880.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.—The population of this parish at the
recently taken census numbered 28,005; in 1871 it
numbered 19,783; in 1861, 13,346; and in 1851, 9,611;
so that during the ten years, 1851-61, it increased at the
rate of 38.8 per 1,000 annually; during the ten years,
1861-71, at the rate of 48.2 per 1,000 annually, and
during the past ten years at the annual rate of 41.5 per
1,000. The lately enumerated inhabitants consisted of
13,332 males and 14,673 females, the latter showing, as
at former census, a great numerical preponderance, the
cause of which is not sufficiently apparent. They were
dwelling in 4,255 houses, averaging therefore 6.58 persons
in each house; 410 houses were uninhabited. At the
census of 1871 the average number of persons living in
each house was 6.67, and in 1861 it was 7.05, so that,
notwithstanding the sanitary disadvantages necessarily
resulting from a more condensed population as regards