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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
The criterion of a healthy community, on the authority of
that eminent official statist Dr. Farre, is 17 deaths in every
1,000 persons living. If, then, the rate of mortality of this
Sub-district can be maintained below even 16 per 1,000—
and the actual rate of 1870 has been calculated to be 15.7
only—the parish may be looked upon to hold a position
amongst the healthy localities of the Metropolis, upon which
the inhabitants might be very fairly congratulated
The population of Putney, including Roehampton, in
1861, was 6,481 ; by the Census taken on April 3rd, 1871,
the number of inhabitants was ascertained to be 9,438 ;
thus showing an increase in the 10 years interval of nearly
3,000, and giving an average annual increase of about 300,
or, to speak more exactly, 295.4. It had been long anticipated
that the new Census would present rather favourable
results in respect to the death rate of this locality, and it is
gratifying to find that this expectation has been more than
realised.
The number of deaths in the Sub-distriet registered in
the past year was 145, nearly equally divided as to sex, viz.,
71 males and 74 females.
The number of registered births in the same period was
271—of males 133, and of females 138—thus showing an
excess of births over deaths of 126. This natural increase
of the population exceeds that of the preceding year by 9
births, and is larger by 35 than that of the average of the
10 preceding years.