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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
In presenting this, my eighteenth contribution to the
Annual Sanitary Report, it affords me much satisfaction to
be able to state that the deaths in this Sub-district during
the year 1873 were, notwithstanding the increase of the
population in the interval, fewer by 19 than were registered
in the previous year, the numbers being respectively 125
in the past year against 144 in 1872. Another gratifying
circumstance, disclosed by the accompanying Tables, is,
that much less mortality has taken place from the Zymotic
class of diseases than has been recorded in any year during
the last decade.
To four only of the seven principal Zymotic diseases
have any deaths been attributed during the past year, and
these amounted to the very small number of 6. In the
previous year (1872) the deaths due to these diseases were
as many as 20. The per centage of deaths of the seven
epidemics referred to, to deaths from all causes for the year
under notice, is as low as 4.8. In 1872 it was 14.0, The
lowest per centage of the ten preceding years was in 1864,
when it was 9.0 ; the highest was in 1869, in which year
it was estimated at 23.3, as is pointed out in the following
Table.