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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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The figures of the year under review support this assertion.
| Year | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births | 4380 | 4540 | 5053 | 5221 | 5529 | 5999 | 6159 | 6508 | 6833 | 7038 |
| Birth-rate per 1000 | 34.5 | 34.4 | 36.4 | 36.5 | 37.3 | 39.5 | 38.6 | 39.4 | 39.7 | 34.2 |
| Deaths | 2867 | 2421 | 2580 | 2796 | 3096 | 3154 | 2991 | 3275 | 3526 | 3593 |
| Death-rate per 1000 | 22.6 | 18.3 | 18.7 | 19.5 | 20.87 | 20.0 | 18.7 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 17.5 |
It has been, therefore, our practice to use this fact in
estimating the population, when, as in the later years of
the decade, we get further and further from the truth
as to our population. The birth-rate of London was
36.2 per 1,000.
Deaths and Death-rate.—During the year 1880
3,593 deaths were registered, of which 1,786 were of
males, and 1,807 of females. This number is 3 fewer
than the Registrar General has given in his Annual
Summary (page xxxii.), and is due to the fact that
3 deaths were registered twice by the Local Registrar
of the Putney sub-district, the mistake having passed
unobserved at Somerset House. The death-rate, as may be