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"the sanitary condition has been steadily and materially improved of late years.
"Of similar significance is the fact that the deaths of infants under one year of
"age have, during the four years, become reduced from 185 to 156 per 1,000
"births; and that with a, practically, stationary population, the deaths from
"typhoid fever have fallen from 32 to 17. Thus, as a result of our investiga"tions,
we find again, after excluding non-parishioners who died in public
"institutions in Shoreditch, and including Shoreditch parishioners who died
"in other institutions in other parishes, that the deaths recorded under the head
"of typhoid fever have been:—
Year 1886 32 deaths.
„ 1887 25
,, 1888 20
„ 1889 17
"And we further find that if the fever mortality be judged, not only by the
"proportion of deaths per 1,000 of the population, but by the proportion fever
"deaths bear to the whole number of deaths from all causes in each of the years
"under notice, the fact as to the reduction of Shoreditch fever mortality is
"equally striking."
This is further evidenced by the figures given by the Commissioners, shewing the
mortality from typhoid fever year by year in Sboreditch, as distinguished from all
London, and they are tabulated for comparison as follows:—

COMMISSIONERS' REPORT—continued.
Infectious
Diseases
( Notification )
Act.
(6.) Page 9. "The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act came into operation in
"1889—its effect has been to throw a great deal of additional work upon the
"sanitary staffs of the London vestries. We find that this Act has been
"worked in Shoreditch efficiently and without friction."
Disinfecting
Chamber.
(7.) "A disinfecting chamber with a hot-air stove has been provided for tlio
"use of the parish."