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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
The general condition of the public health of this fast
increasing Suburb, as indicated by its registered mortality
during the past year (1871), is upon the whole satisfactory.
The deaths enumerated in the register of that
year were 151, 63 males and 88 females, which, notwithstanding
the increase of the population, in the interval, is
only 6 more than are to be found on the record of the
preceding year.
Calculating the year's increase of population to have
been in the same proportion as that of the average of the
past 10 years, it is found that a death rate is being
maintained in this Parish very slightly exceeding 15 per
1,000 persons living, or nearly 2 per thousand below what
is termed the Zero, or very healthy rate, of the Registrar
General. This, it is submitted, is all the more satisfactory
seeing that the estimate is based on no mere assumption,
but upon the actual Census last taken (April 3rd, 1871),
which gave to Putney, including the hamlet of Roehampton,
a population at that time of 9,438.
The births during the year were 275, 135 males and
140 females, which is but 4 more than were registered in
the year preceding.
By noting the excess of births over deaths we can of
course obtain with accuracy the natural increase of the
population within a given period, and by calculating the
increase by immigration in the same period, on the basis
of a 10 years' average, we may arrive at a tolerably correct
estimate of the total number of inhabitants from which
to deduce at least an approximate death rate for the
year.
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