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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
The Census of the year 1881 was made on the 4th
April, and it is therefore necessary in giving the mean
population of the year to increase it by such a number as
may be supposed to have been added to that population
up to June 30th. The Census gave a population of
13,221, and to this we add 91 as the average rate of increase
during nearly the quarter of a year elapsing between
April 4th and June 30th. The population of this subdistrict
may therefore be put down at 13,312 in the
middle of the year 1881.
Births and Birth-rate.—During the year 1881 340
births were registered; of these 185 were of males,
and 155 of females. It is somewhat curious that
this proportion between males and females is usually
reversed, more females being born than males. Last
year (1880) 348 children were born, of whom 163 were
males, and 185 females. There is, therefore, a slight
falling off in the number of births. The Birth-rate is
only 255 per 1,000 of the population, or 1 in 39, as
compared with 27.3 per 1,000, or 1 in 37 of last year.
The very low birth-rate of this sub-district is very significant
of the fact that the better classes do not multiply
so rapidly as the poorer.
Deaths and Death-rate.—We have reason to congratulate
the inhabitants of this sub-district upon the
exceedingly low death-rate of the year 1881. Only 167
deaths, 10 fewer than 1880, 12 fewer than 1879, and no
less than 19 fewer than 1878, were registered. Of these
92 were of males and 75 of females. In this case also
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