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PUTNEY & ROEHAMPTON.
I have the honour to submit the following report of
the sanitary condition of the Parish of Putney and Roehampton
during the year 1887, and I do so with the
greatest satisfaction in as much as the condition of
things therein revealed quite maintains the high standard
obtained during the last three years.
The most prominent fact in the mortality table is the
wonderful immunity from zymotic disease which we
have enjoyed during a time when London generally
suffered severely from epidemics of an infectious nature.
No doubt such a result is to a large extent due to the
continued and careful sanitary supervision of the district
and to the rapid removal to hospital of those cases where
isolation cannot be satisfactorily carried out.
Population. The population of Putrey in the middle of
1887 is calculated at 15,590. This figure is, I should
say, certainly very much below the true one. The increase
in the population in this district has made very
rapid strides during the last two or three years.
Births and Birth-rate. The birth-rate remains about the same as it
has been for the last two years. During the
year 349 births were registered, which makes the birth