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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
Putney, including the hamlet of Roehampton, contained,
in 1874 (the year it is here proposed to review),
a population of 10,396, as estimated for the middle of
that year. This calculation is, as usual, based upon the
Registrar General's time-honoured method; but there is
reason to believe this mode of computing the yearly
increase, although the best, and indeed the only one, that
can be employed in the absence of an annual enumeration
of the people, has the merit of being only approximately
correct, by reason of its uncertain estimate of the immigrational
element; but it is nevertheless considered by most
statists to be sufficiently reliable for all practical purposes,
and that, when employed annually and undeviatingly
from one decade to another, it does not so greatly fail in
giving the correct figures as it is popularly imagined it
must do; at all events it has not been found so in the
past as regards this Sub-district.
In the past year there were registered in the 52
weeks 156 deaths, those who died having been nearly
equally divided as to sex, viz., 80 males and 76 females.
This, it need scarcely be said, gives a death-rate of
15.0 per 1000 persons living or 1 death to every 67
of the inhabitants. The excess of deaths over that of
1873 was 31. The death-rate of the past year was,
therefore, 2.7 per 1000, higher than it was in the preceding
one. This excess appears to have been due to an
increased fatality of Tubercular diseases, including Phthisis,
of affections of the Brain and Nerves, and of those of the