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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
Throughout the greater portion of the year 1863, this
sub-district largely shared in the epidemic sickness so
unusually prevalent both in the Metropolis and Provinces.
The rate of mortality has consequently somewhat exceeded
the average of the seven years during which the Local
Management Act has been in operation. The table which
follows will clearly shew to what fatal diseases this
excess has been due; and when it is borne in mind that as
the result of three zymotic maladies only, viz., Smallpox,
Scarlatina, and Diphtheria, no less than 14 deaths
took place above the number registered in the previous
year, and nearly the same number above the average of
the past seven years, the year under review must be regarded,
in respect to the operation within the parish of
epidemic influences, as altogether an exceptional one.
Whilst then it is a matter for some regret that not
quite so favourable a report as last year can be submitted,
it is so far satisfactory to find that this parish has simply
participated in the general sickness, and that it does not
per se present any remarkable death-rate for the year distinguishing
it from surrounding parishes.
It need scarcely be observed that the table of mortality
which follows, is constructed on the same principle as
those in previous reports, to afford the usual facilities
of comparison, and to obviate the necessity of too
lengthened comments.
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