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In" the preceding useful and practical table is shown the number of
deaths from all causes that have occurred in the sub district, together
with the ages at death, and the sex and social positions of the deceased
persons. This Table has been necessarily made a local one, because the
information it professes to impart is exclusively local, and could not
well have been placed in a general table applying to the entire district.
It will be noticed, that although there has been a great increase of
small-pox in other parts of the country, as well as in the metropolitan
districts, there has not occurred a single death from that loathsome
malady in this sub-district during the year under notice. It is also
worthy of remark, that the fatal cases of zymotic disease (16) compared
with those resulting from non-epidemic maladies, are few, considering
the amount of population.
The infantile mortality, or the number of deaths of children under
10 years of age, is large ; but it is believed does not greatly exceed the
average.
The births in the year, as stated in Table II., Appendix, numbered 258.
The deaths, as I before stated, were 134 ; the excess of births over
deaths in the past year, is therefore 124.
Table IV. Appendix, which exhibits the number of cases treated by
the Union medical officers acting in this sub-district, and the number of
resulting deaths amongst the out-door poor, is very instructive, and
moreover highly satisfactory, as showing a very low rate of mortality
(14), in the number of cases of sickness, &c. (249) that came under
treatment.
The last table in the Appendix, showing the number of houses and
premises examined and reported on in 1858, and the number of sanitary
works executed during the same period, is also of a very satisfactory
character, as leading to the conclusion that considerable advance has
been made in sanitation in the past year, the tendency of which has
been very greatly to improve the three localities comprised in the important
sub-district for which I have the honour of acting as the health
officer. I respectfully urge upon the Board a continuance of efforts in
the same direction.
DAVID C. NOEL,
Medical Officer of Health for Streatham, Tooting, and Balham.