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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
The general Census of the population which was
taken a few months ago, has put me in possession of more
accurate data on which computation of relative mortality
or rate of death may be founded, and the health of the
public during the past year be determined with tolerable
accuracy.
The amount of the population having exceeded by some
thousands that which I had assumed it to be, and the
number of deaths having been known, year by year, beyond
the possibility of error, it is, of course, obvious that the
state of the public health, which I have reported to the
Vestry as being remarkably good when compared with other
districts, and as indicating a prospect of still greater
improvement, has been even better than I have in my
Annual Reports declared it to be. I have carefully avoided
placing you, by my statements, in a position of false
security; and in making my various reports to you of the