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Returns of Sickness and Mortality.
On pages 16 to 28 the following tables will be found: No. 1,
giving the population, births, and cases of infectious disease
which have come to my knowledge during the year 1899.
No. II., the deaths which have been registered in the Parish,
including also the deaths of parishioners in hospitals and other
institutions outside the Sanitary District, classified according to
diseases, ages, and localities. These tables are prepared in
accordance with the requirements of the Local Government
Board, in order to ensure greater uniformity in the reports of
Medical Officers of Health than formerly existed.
No. III. is of a more comprehensive character, and shows
the deaths registered from all causes, inclusive of the deaths
of parishioners at hospitals and public institutions outside
the District, but exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at
public institutions within the Parish.
No. IV. is a summary of the population, births and deaths with
rates per 1,000 of persons living in the Parish for the ten years
1890 to 1899 inclusive.
No. V. is a return prepared by Mr. Bell, the Vaccination
Officer, setting forth the number of cases of successful vaccination,
so far as relates to children whose births were registered
during the year ending June 30th, 1899. The figures show that
those not yet found in consequence of removals, &c., number 195
out of a total of 1,856, being 10.5 per cent., a deficiency somewhat
less than in former years. It will be seen from this Return
that in 8 cases only was exemption claimed under Sec. 2, known
as the Conscientious Objection Clause of the Vaccination Act.
Sickness and Deaths due to the Principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-pox.—For the fifth successive year I am in a position
to report that no death from this cause has occurred to any
parishioner of St. Luke, nor has any case of sickness from the
disease been notified. The Metropolis furnished 3 deaths from
Small-pox against 1 for 1898 and 16 for the year 1897.