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PUTNEY & ROEHAMPTON.
It is with much satisfaction that I present the following
favourable report of the sanitary condition of this subdistrict
for the year 1862.
Not only does the appended table of mortality exhibit
a manifest decrease in the number of deaths from all
causes, but it furnishes additional evidence of a fact
frequently referred to in former reports,—that zymotic
diseases, which it is the more immediate object of sanitation
to control, are now attended with much less suffering,
and as a consequence, with much less fatality than was
formerly the case, before any really systematic efforts
were made to oppose their invasion or to deprive them of
their virulence.
Another, and a no less important feature of the table
referred to, is the record of much less mortality amongst
the infant and youthful portion of the population than
has been presented in former tables for several years past.
MORTALITY AND CAUSES OF DEATH.
The present table is constructed, as usual, with the view
to shew, not only the causes of death, but the sex, age,
and social position of the deceased persons, and is here
referred to with much satisfaction as evidencing a most
manifest improvement in the public health of the locality,