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My Reports thereon being referred to the Surveyor,
he recommended certain structural alterations
in all the houses, to remedy the faults I had indicated.
These recommendations were adopted by the Vestry.
The necessary works were then executed by the owners
to the satisfaction of the Surveyor.

Being exactly the same total as last year; but the
numbers of the respective diseases varied, this year
the fever cases were 104 against 93 in the previous
year; small pox cases, 3 this year against 14 previous
year. The immediate cost to the Hamlet for the
patients alone would necessarily be about the same as
the previous year, viz., £349 10s. 8d., but this primary
charge is insignificent, if compared, as in my last year's
Report, with an estimate of the ultimate cost resulting
from deaths of parents leaving children a permanent
charge upon the ratepayers, by the patients themselves
being disabled from and losing work, or through impaired
vital powers, remaining for an indefinite period incapable
of arduous labour.
My object in making special allusion to this charge
upon the rates, is to promote an increased interest in
such sanitary works as will not only save many valuable
lives, and prevent much human suffering, but would
also prove a great pecuniary gain, by prevention and
removal of those conditions, which experience has
clearly proved to be the cause of such a large proportion
of disease and death.