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PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON.
The mortality statistics of a small District such
as this vary considerably, even over long spaces of time.
The exceptionally low mortality of 1876 has been followed,
during 1877, with one which somewhat exceeds the
average. Still, a consideration of the causes of death
will subsequently show, that there is in this fact
nothing to justify alarm or even to detract from
the usually high character of this District in point of
salubrity.
Population.—The official method of calculation, that
of taking for the years subsequent to the last census the
same rate of increase as that which obtained during
the previous decade, is manifestly erroneous, taking, as
it does, no cognizance of the augmenting rate of natural
increase, or the influence of constantly progressing immigration.
However, for the sake of uniformity, we must
accept its dictum, and fix the population at the middle
of 1877 at 11,287.
Deaths and Death-rate.—During 1877, 170 deaths
were registered, of which 89 were of males, and 81
of females. This gives a death-rate of 15.0 per 1000
per annum, or 1 in 66½ persons living. Compared with