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PUTNEY AND ROEHAMPTON.
We have the advantage this year of estimating our
sanitary statistics upon the tolerably accurate enumeration
of our population, which the census of 1881 has
given us. As we bring our report as nearly as may be
to the middle of the year 1880, we must deduct from
the figures, of which we are now in possession, the
increase our population is supposed to have made from
that time to the date of the census.
Population.—The census returns gave our population
on April 4th, 1881, at 13,221, viz.: 5,397 males,
and 7,824 females. The average number of persons per
house was 6.2. There were 2,525 families living in
2,121 houses, indicating that 401 families found accommodation
in a house already occupied. This number is
considerably in excess of the population we were, until
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