View report page

27
and amount of sickness amongst the pauper population of
the sub-district, (exclusive of that treated in the workhouse),
as well as the deaths that have resulted from
disease and other causes. Of the 747 cases of sickness,
accidents, &c., treated, and being registered in the medical
relief book during the past year, 10 only are noted as
having terminated fatally; being a rate of mortality
very considerably less than has appeared in corresponding
tables for many years past, a circumstance which
strengthens the remark made in my last Report, that this
particular class (the out-door poor) must have benefited
considerably by the sanitary improvements that have
been effected within the last few years.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES ADOPTED DURING THE YEAR—
AMOUNT OF SANITARY WORKS PERFORMED.
The amount and kind of sanitary work executed within
the sub-district during the year, may be gathered from a
perusal of Table VI., Appendix. It will be manifest by a
reference to the column of this table applying to this
parish, that there has been no abatement of the energy
with which sanitary improvements have been carried out
in former years; indeed it must be conceded to this subdistrict
that, seeing the many drawbacks which every
large manufacturing population always presents to the
attainment of a high sanitary status, it has, during the
seven years of the operation of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, made great advances towards that
which legislation has sought to accomplish.
WILLIAM CONNOR,
Medical Officer of Health for the Sub-district of Battersea.