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Of the total number of 13,141 received from residents during
the year, 9,195 were by letter or postal card, and 3,946 were made
personally, or through messengers sent to the Vestry Offices.
The 13,141 applications received from the inhabitants were at
the rate of 379 per cent, of the inhabited houses, against 39 5 per
cent, in 1879-80.
In closing my Report, I should wish to say that the Smallpox
epidemic which, as I write, is upon us in all its intensity, is a
matter of the greatest anxiety to your Sanitary Committee and to
the officers of the Sanitary department. The history of this
epidemic will be fully reported to your Vestry in due course, but
it is my duty meanwhile to express to you my sense of the
valuable services of your Sanitary Superintendent, and the
praiseworthy activity of the Inspectors in meeting unusual calls
upon their time and energy. To the Sanitary Committee both
Mr. Collingwood and myself are much indebted for their ready and
intelligent support.
The Camp Hospital for Small Pox, which the Vestry have in
their wisdom authorized, is an enormous gain to the ratepayers of
the parish. One can scarcely overestimate the advantages arising
from such a step. I have seen enough of its usefulness to sanction
my referring to it as one of the most important of the sanitary
works carried out by your Vestry for a long time past.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
C. MEYMOTT TIDY, M.B
Vestry Offices,
30th June, 1881.