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to place on the present quarterly record,—a circumstance that may be
very fairly attributed to the improved state of the drainage throughout
the town during the last year. This sub-district, doubtless from the
same cause, has also escaped in a remarkable manner the fatality
usually attendant upon the other diseases of the zymotic class,
prevalent in the summer and autumn months, as is shown in the weekly
returns of the Registrar General, from which the following table has
been compiled.

The above table will also point out not only the sub-districts in which
preventible disease has been most rife during the quarter, but those to
which the attention of the Board and of its executive officers is most
needed.
Sickness and Mobtalitx amongst the Union Poor.
Table IV., appendix, exhibits a most favourable rate of mortality
amongst the indigent receiving parochial relief out of the workhouse.
Out of 1474 cases of sickness attended, and administered
to, by the Union Medical Officers during the quarter, only 52 deaths
resulted, although a severe and very fatal epidemic prevailed nearly the
whole time. By excluding from this table all the cases of diarrhoea and
English cholera, that came under treatment, and comparing the number
of other diseases treated, with the number recorded in table IV.,
appended to the Report of the previous or June quarter, a great
improvement in the health of the pauper population of this Union will
be made manifest. For example in the one class of maladies connected
with the lungs, including phthisis, as many as 188 cases were treated
during the quarter that ended 27th June last, of which number 25
resulted in death ; whereas in the quarter that expired on the 26th
September, 56 cases and 14 deaths are all that are found recorded in
the Medical Relief Books.