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than occurred in the previous March quarter of the present year, and
considerably below the general average of corresponding quarters of
former years.
Amongst the Union poor of this parish, but 3 deaths have been registered
during the same period out of 152 cases treated. The new sewerage
and the drainage of houses, hitherto without these sanitary advantages,
is unquestionably beginning to tell upon the rate of mortality in this
sub-district, especially amongst the poor. Nothing that has been accomplished
under the authority of your Board appears to have given more
general satisfaction to the tenants of small houses in this locality, than
the improvements I have referred to.
The sanitary measures perfected, or in progress of completion in Putney
and Roehampton, have been thus reported to me by the active
Inspector of the sub-district.
Number of houses inspected 179, cesspools emptied 155, cesspools
filled up 138, water-closets substituted for open cesspools 131, dust-bins
supplied 122, removal of swine 1, houses in which drainage has been
perfected 136, houses in which the above improvements have been but
partially accomplished, or in which the works are in progress 20, works
not commenced 4.
In order to accomplish this large amount of improvement, there have
been served upon owners or their agents 45 first, and 30 second notices,
nearly all of which have been attended to.
Conclusion.
Reviewing the satisfactory information conveyed in the several local
returns in connexion with the very visible diminution in the amount of
sickness and the rate of mortality throughout the district, as indicated
by the statistical tables in the appendix, nothing can be more gratifying
to your Officers of Health, than the contemplation of what may be
further accomplished by a continuation in the same direction of their
individual and combined exertions.
The importance of the matters to which I have been called upon to
refer in this report in behalf of my colleagues, is very generally admitted,
and at the present period when there are unmistakeable threatenings
of the re-appearance of a disease from which the metropolis so
seriously suffered in former years, these measures justly occupy a large