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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
In presenting my accustomed Annual Report,
some few words of introduction are necessary. I may,
perhaps, be allowed to repeat, that the main value of documents
of this character must be found in the deductions we
are enabled to draw from a comparison of the statistics of
one year with those of another; and hence it is that the
series of these Annual Reports should be examined concurrently
with the present, in order to lead to a full comprehension
of the sanitary state of our Hamlet, existent and
progressive. In these comparisons and deductions, indeed,
we discover the secret of sanitary science; and it is by the
application of truths, so evolved, to the circumstances of
each particular case, that we acquire the power to provide
remedies for existing evils, and furnish such information as
enables us to combat, with some chance of success, probable
causes of sickness and death.
The sanitary condition of the Hamlet of Mile End Old
Town has considerably improved during the last decade, and
the rate of mortality has, year by year, approached nearer
and nearer to that of the most favoured districts of the