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the area of the sub-district, the greater sanitary disadvantages
arising from overcrowding in houses have
become diminished by greater and more improved house
accommodation.
Birth-rate.—The births registered during the past
year numbered 810; 415 of males, and 395 of females.
The average annual number of the past ten years
was 687. The birth-rate of the past year was 30.53 per
1,000, and the rate of natural increase 15.08 per 1,000
of the population.
Mortality.—The total deaths registered amounted
to 484, 248 of males, and 236 of females; 110 occurred
in the following public institutions, viz.: 90 in the
Surrey County Lunatic Asylum; 10 in the Hospital for
Incurables; 4 in St. Peter's Hospital; 5 in the Prison;
and 1 in the Reformatory for boys.
Death-rate.—The death-rate, calculated from the
recent census of the population and the total deaths
registered, was 17.67 per 1,000. So determined, however,
this rate, favourable as it is, does not, as has been
explained in previous reports, represent the natural rate
of mortality of this sub-district, in consequence of the
undue exaltation of the death-register by the mortality
of the County Lunatic Asylum, the Hospital for Incurables,
and St; Peter's Hospital ; institutions, the inmates
of which are derived, with a fractional exception, from
without the parish, undergo no natural increase, and are
subject to a very high mortality, and are, moreover,
sufficiently numerous to cause a death-rate so derived to
fluctuate with the mortality resulting in them. It is,
therefore, found necessary to make correction for these
institutions by eliminating their mortality, together with
their population, from the calculation, and for greater
accuracy to add to the latter the deaths of Wandsworth
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