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trust it will appear to you that the sanitary department of
the Hamlet has been conducted with perseverance and
activity. In no instance since the formation of the Yestry
has it been considered necessary to have recourse to proceedings
by indictment at the Sessions, and the rare appearance
of the Officers of the Vestry at the Police Courts will, I
think, prove to the Yestry and to the ratepayers generally,
that coercion by legal process is never contemplated while
any more moderate means remain open.
Certain trade nuisances, and offensive accumulations of
disagreeable refuse matter, have been complained of, and
have, through the instrumentality of the Officers, been either
put an end to altogether, or so far moderated as to cease to
occasion peril to the public health, while some offensive
trades have admitted of such improvement in the mode of
conducting them that they have ceased to be sources of
complaint. The good result of the whole year's exertions
has been testified to by the reduction in the amount of mortality,
which may be seen in the Tables I have had the
pleasure to present to you; and as there is, of course, a
limit to such reduction, to which limit we are fast approaching,
I hope that at least the present favorable state of public
health may long be preserved in our Hamlet.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
J. H. FREEMAN,
Medical Officer of Health for Mile End Old Town.
Vestry Hall, Mile End,
July 15th, 1861.
Newell, Printer, Assembly Row, Mile End Koad.