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In the table (Schedule B) is a record of the sickness under the care of the
District Medical Officers.
The mean temperature of the 5 weeks has been considerably below the
average.
Wok-kiiouse.—There have been 33 deaths in the Workhouse during the
5 weeks; and 3 inmates of the Workhouse who were sent to the Fever Hospital,
Islington, died there. The general health of the establishment has been good;
but the occurrence of 2 cases of typhus still indicates a necessity for improvement.
The removal of the children into the country, the ventilation of the
entire building, and the removal of the laundries and the kitchen have, I am
glad to find, been determined on, and will, I trust, be carried out with the
least possible delay. Some parts of the House are still very full, especially
the infant nursery, the girls' bed-room, the women's receiving and casual ward
(which is still used for the two purposes), and some of the rooms in which the
able bodied women sleep. The average number of inmates during the month
has been 1482.
THOS. HILLIER.