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CLAPHAM.
I need offer but very few comments upon the following
introductory table, since it is one which has always been
found to speak for itself, and to afford such an amount of
information as to generally interest those who are really
intent upon watching the social and sanitary progress which
this rapidly increasing township is making.
A good indication of the general prosperity of a community
is always to be found in the number of its marriages.
These events, it will be seen, were much more
numerous during the past year than during 1870, in the
proportion of 249 to 158; but it will strike every one as
somewhat singular that the excess of births over deaths
should be so much less than in any year since 1865, when
it was 314, or 57 more than in the past year. In the past