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of the sanitary authority. This Board took every means of
making the order known, but the order did not require the
lists of out-workers or copies of such lists to be sent to the
sanitary authority, and consequently the order was of little
practical good in this District. Few of the out-workers living
in this District have their factories and workshops situated
within it, and consequently it is impossible to follow up these
cases. It would have been of great service if the occupier of
factory or workshop was ordered to forward the list of his
out-workers to the respective Medical Officers of Health of
the various sanitary districts.
VITAL STATISTICS,
The vital statistics are calculated upon the population at all
ages estimated to the middle of 1893. This estimate gives a
population of 12,861. These figures are too small to give
any true estimate of the health of the District and are liable
to inaccuracies caused by slight errors which would be inappreciable
in a District with a large population.
To give one of the many examples, during this year, the
bodies of 12 persons were found drowned in the Thames, not
one of whom were parishioners, but on account of the bodies
being washed ashore in this District, they are returned as
belonging to St. Olave's District, this error alone, if not
accounted for, would raise the death rate nearly 1 per 1000.
Again the annual death-rate of the last few years has been
compared with that of some years back, and it has been
Stated that in spite of the progress in sanitation, we compare