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from Diarrhœa and other heat-produced diseases being numerous
The total mortality for the year, as shewn earlier in this report
was the lowest in the forty-three years included in Table V. with
four exceptions.
This condition, I beg to submit, is to a great extent due to
the sedulous care exercised by the Health Committee and the
staff acting under it to remove any probable cause of disease.
To the members of the Health Committee and to the Vestry
generally, I owe many thanks for the support I have received in
carrying out the duties of my office.
I have also to thank my colleagues for their ready assistance
at all times and I feel that I owe much to the unremitting labours
of the staff of the Public Health Department.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen,
Yours obediently,
W. H. KEMPSTER, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.