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Putney. The most gratifying feature in the mortality return of this
sub-district, (vide Table II, appendix) is almost the total absence of all
record of fatal cases of the ordinary zymotic diseases. With the exception
of English cholera, to which one child—as certified by the medical attendant—is
registered as having succumbed, and of diarrhoea, which in
my own practice, resulted in death in one instance (the deceased
woman having reached her 99th year,) there have been no deaths
from ordinary epidemic disease during the entire quarter. The total
number of deaths from all causes—although the present return presents
an excess of three over the June quarter—is below the average of corresponding
seasons, after making the usual correction for increase of
population. The table referring to the sickness and mortality of the
out-door union poor is, as far as it relates to Putney, of an equally
gratifying character; the nnmber of deaths recorded as having occurred
amongst this class of persons in the Parish, amounting to only three
during the entire quarter, out of 206 cases treated. This rate of mortality,
considering how extensively diarrhoea prevailed amongst the
class referred to, is extremely low, and has scarcely a parallel in the
Union records for years past. In the corresponding quarter of 1856,
the number of deaths amongst the same class of patients, was four, out
of only 129 cases treated. The principal sanitary event of the quarter
is the completion of the drainage and sewerage in the bye-ways and
poorer localities of this town, to the inhabitants of which it has proved
one of the greatest possible boons.
In conclusion it may be observed that considerable advance has been
made during the quarter towards improving the sanitary condition of
the entile district, a fact which will be rendered still more apparent
by a reference to the following report from the Inspector of the Wandsworth
and Putney sub-districts, which I regret to say, came to hand too
late to be inserted in its proper place amongst the local summaries.
Inspector's Report for the Parish of Putney, for the Quarter ending
September 29th, 1857.
Number of Houses inspected 54
First notices served 14
Second do. do 3
Cesspools emptied 26
Do. filled up 24
Water supplied 15
Drained into Sewer 49