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None of the above cases call for especial remark.
Uncertified deaths.—The total number of persons
buried during the year without a medical certificate of the
cause of death or an investigation by the Coroner, was 40,
and of these 29 were under 5 years of age. It is evident
that no person should be interred without some inquiry by
the proper officials into the circumstances attending the
death.
In cases where notice of the death together with the
facts attendant thereon, have been submitted to the
Coroner, and he has decided that enquiry is unnecessary,
the Registrar has agreed in future to notify the fact in the
weekly returns of registered deaths.
Disease and mortality amongst the Union Poor.—An
unusually large number of cases, 1231, has come under
the care of the District Medical Officer during the past
year, the result of an increased population and severe
weather during the winter months, which deprived the
working classes of their means of subsistence, and rendered
them more liable to disease. The mortality, sixteen, is very
small, but the more severe cases of acute disease were
removed to the Infirmary or Special Hospitals, where
proper food, nursing, and other necessary comforts would