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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
Little need be added in the way of comment to the
information afforded by the annexed tables. From them,
in addition to the usual particulars, will be gathered the
not very satisfactory fact that the year 1869 has proved
one of exceptional severity in favouring the Zymotic activity
of disease. In this respect, however, the Sub-district
is found to stand by no means alone ; indeed, considering
how prevalent and fatal these maladies have been throughout
the country, and how greatly and rapidly this locality
has increased in the number of its inhabitants in the
interval of the present and previous years' Report, it is a
matter for some congratulation, that but 15 more deaths
from all causes have been registered above the number
recorded in the Mortality Table of 1868.
The excess of deaths in 1869 over the previous year,
will be found to be more than accounted for by the increased
number of deaths shown in that part of the table
devoted to the record of fatal cases of Zymotic disease.
Not only will the following condensed table show what
great fluctuations have, for years past, taken place in the