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REPORT
Gentlemen,
I shall employ but few words to introduce to
you the present report. It is intended particularly to inform
you of the solitary state of the Hamlet during the past
year,—to give you an account of the attempts made for
improving its condition,—with some practical remarks on
subjects of general interest.
The annual statement of the Medical Officer of Health
should be made during the month of June, and should relate
to events which occurred during the twelve months preceding
the Lady-day immediately past,* making that period
the termination of the year, as regards the sanitary state of
the district reported on. But, as the tables and statements
of the Registrar General are made up to the end of the year,
that is to Christmas, some trifling inconvenience is found to
arise from the want of relation.
I have therefore prepared the annual statements of
mortality in accordance with the latter period, so that
* Metropolis Local Management Act, sec. 198.