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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
Tn presenting, for the first time, my own contribution
to the Annual Report of the Medical Officers of Health,
it seems only a just tribute to the memory of my worthy
and respected predecessor, to express my sense of the loss
his fellow officers have sustained by his death, and my determination
that honest effort and assiduous care shall
not be wanting on my part in taking up the duties he has
so faithfully performed for twenty years, and in cultivating
to the best of my ability the qualities which distinguished
him as a sanitary reformer as well as an officer.
Population.—At such a late period of the census decade,
the population of a growing Suburban District such
as ours can be only approximately determined, since the
ratio of increase is being annually accelerated. Taking,
however, the recognised method of calculation, the population
of the combined parishes of Putney and Roehampton
may be estimated at 10,990.
Deaths and Death-rate, &c.—It is my good fortune
to have to record an exceedingly low death-rate during
the past year. Only 143 deaths were registered in this
Sub-district during the year, of which 78 were of males
and 65 of females. This gives the exceedingly low death-
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