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once laying out your capital in the furtherance of those important
objects for which you are here assembled to deliberate; whether it
be for the sake of humanity, or whether it be as an investment of
your capital, I cannot but look upon the subject as being highly
meritorious, and ultimately a direct saving of expense to your
respective Parishes.
When you take into your consideration the observations and
facts that I have thought proper, and shall think necessary, to lay
before you, and after carefully investigating the causes of this past
sacrifice of life in the several Parishes of this District, I am confident
that you will allow no expenditure (consistent with what will
appear to be practicable, and with what will be borne out by
experience to be eminently useful) to interfere with your feelings of
humanity; but that you will render me every assistance in
adopting such measures as will tend to lessen this large amount of
sickness and mortality; thereby, not only affording relief to the
poor, but bringing honor on your Board, as having been the
instruments for effectually carrying out the important measures
contemplated by the Act of Parliament. In reporting to you on
the sanatory condition of your District during the past month,
I can only give you a plain statement of the deaths as they have
occurred; viz.:—
Greenwich East 50
„ West 32*
Deptford, St. Paul 42
„ St. Nicholas 12
Total 136
I purpose simply to forward you the like information in each
succeeding month during the present year, reserving my remarks as
to any comparative statement of sickness and mortality, until the
commencement of the next year.
* This is exclusive of the Deaths from the Dreadnought Hospital Ship.