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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I have to submit the Fifteenth Annual Report
upon the Public Health in the Hamlet for the year
ending March 25th, 1871, as required by the Metropolis
Local Government Act.
I have in the first place to explain the reason for the
late appearance of this report ; and this is the more
necessary because the delay has probably retarded the
delivery of the combined reports of my colleagues and
myself. At the period when my Annual Report is
usually presented there was a considerable accession of
work caused by the presence of the small-pox epidemic,
and before this had subsided the rumours of the approach
of cholera still further added to this work, and
thus I was prevented from proceeding with my report
at the usual period. Ido not regret this as I believe
much benefit has accrued therefrom; still I have thought
it my duty to make this explanation to the Vestry.
If the number of births and deaths proportionate to
population may be taken —the former as an indication of
material prosperity and the latter of good health, we
may feel assured that both these satisfactory conditions,
in spite of an exceptional epidemic, have prevailed
among the inhabitants, and that this Hamlet maintains
its reputation for salubrity.
The number of births for the year was 3724 or about
40.7 to every 1000 of the present population ; the corresponding
rate for the whole Metropolis was 35 per
1000 population.