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Table No. 6 shows the comparative number of Births for
the past seven years.
Table No, 7 will be seen the excess of Births over Deaths
for each separate division of the Division during the year
1862.
These Tables in their general import agree very nearly
with those of last year.
The slight increase of Deaths over the preceding year,
taking into consideration the increase of population since
that period, would not be in excess of the average Death-rate
per 1000 for the whole population of the District.
On examining the Tables above alluded to, it will be seen
that, whether referring to the number of Births and Deaths
for the past three or four years, the ages at which those
Deaths took place, or the Diseases causing those Deaths,
there has not existed sufficient variation in their contents to
call for any particular remarks on my part.
In my former Reports I have examined with considerable
minuteness all such subjects referring to the sanitary condition
of the District as have been exhibited in the several Tables
laid before you, and have offered the best suggestions in my
power for the removal or prevention of such causes of Disease
as the state of the District would appear to require; and
were I now to make any comment on the Tables hereto
annexed, I should be doing little otherwise than recapitulating
the observations to which I have drawn your attention in my
former Reports.
The sanitary work performed by your officers, and under
the direction of your Board, has been nearly in the same
ratio as in preceding years.
In addition to which I have great satisfaction in reminding
you of the valuable arrangements issued by your Board in
respect to the licensing of the numerous cowhouses in the
District, a work of great sanitary importance, and worthy of
your continued efforts to maintain them in the condition in
which they have been placed by your directions.
Another work of still greater sanitary importance, viz.
the collection and removal of refuse and dust from the