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his bakehouse, who otherwise would let it go its own way; granting
that they make a dust contractor, a varnish maker, or a tallowmelter
adopt the best practicable means in carrying on his trade;
granting all this, is it worth the money we spend ?"
It is now twenty years ago that your Vestry appointed Dr.
Ballard its first Medical Officer of Health. I have been endeavouring
to gather together some facts to show the results of our work during
the period between 1856 and 1876, and I venture to place before you
in a table a few of the statistics I have worked out, and I will now
invite your attention to it. I have stated, you will see, year by year,
since 1856, in the various columns, the population of Islington, the
number of deaths, the death-rate compared with the death-rate of
London, the number and the percentage of deaths from Zymotic
diseases, from diseases of the respiratory organs, from Tuberculosis
(Phthisis), and lastly, the total and percentage deaths of children
under five years of age.