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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
The near approach of the census of 1881 renders it
impossible to present statistics of an accurate kind as
regards the sanitary condition of this sub-district, as even
a hypothetical estimate of the population of a rapidly
increasing suburb is a matter of great difficulty and
uncertainty. Still, the fact that 7 fewer deaths were
registered in 1879 than in the preceding year is evidence,
which requires no elaborate statistics to prove, of an
advance in the direction towards which all sanitary effort is
aimed—a substantial reduction in the death-rate.
Population.—If we estimate the population according
to the rate of increase prevailing between the last two
census (1861-71), this sub-district in the middle of the
year 1879 contained about 11,900 persons. This we are
bound to accept as the official estimate, and to found our
statistics upon, though we have good reason for believing it
an under-estimate.
Births and birth-rate.—The number of births registered
during 1879 was 327. This is a decrease of 11 upon the
births of last year, and of 24 upon those of 1877. Of
these, 174 were of males, and 153 of females. The birthrate
was 27.4 per thousand, or 1 birth in every 36
persons.
Deaths and death rate.—The deaths registered during
1879 numbered 179, 89 of males and 90 of females. The
death rate, according to the official estimate of population,
is 15.0 per thousand. The deaths registered during 1878
were 186, and the death-rate 16.0 per thousand. This contrast
is all the more gratifying when it is recollected that
the Registrar-General has included another week in the year
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