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houses and buildings in the District, has been for some time
under the consideration of your Board; would that I could
now report on the completion of that work throughout the
entire District. The good effects which must arise to those
Parishes wherein dust collectors have been already appointed,
will, I trust, be a sufficient guarantee of the value of the
remedy for the mitigation of diseases, and will be found to
be a sufficient stimulus to urge the District Board to persevere
in carrying out so praiseworthy a measure in the remaining
part of the District.
With the prospect of the complete drainage of the District,
to which your attention has been now for some time directed,
and by your continued efforts in promoting and adopting
such sanitary measures as will appear to you to be conducive
to the health of the District, I do trust, ere long, to be able
to announce to you a great reduction in the Death-rate of the
several Parishes under your charge, and more particularly as
regards the infantile portion of the population.
To infants under 5 years of age I must refer you for the
great mortality of the District, numbering, as you will
perceive by the annexed Tables, more than one-third of the
entire mortality. With regard to that helpless portion of
your population, therefore, I must exhort you to direct
your efforts to the mitigation of the causes of preventable
diseases, large powers for which have been granted you by
the legislature of your country.
With these remarks, and again thanking you for the
support you have already given me in carrying into effect
the many sanitary measures which I have already brought
under your notice,
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
HENRY N. PINK.
Crooms Hill,
May 23, 1863.