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that which is conveyed by the death-register. The
mortality amongst the poor was greater, the excess being
due to a greater fatality from epidemic diseases. The total
number of cases of sickness was 1410, and closely corresponded
with the average of the preceding seven years.
The deaths numbered 56, or 4 per cent. nearly (3.99) and
exceeded the average by one third. Epidemic diseases
numbered 419, or upwards of 29 per cent. of all the cases
of sickness, the average being 358; and the deaths from
these diseases 20, or about double the average. From
the figures in this table, also, the amount and intensity of
disease which has prevailed generally may be approximately
estimated, by assuming the proportion of deaths
to the cases of sickness amongst the poor as a measure of
the proportion which the deaths bore to the cases of
sickness amongst the inhabitants generally. From which
calculation it appears that the cases of sickness (under
treatment) must have been not less than 5891 during
the past year, and that one death resulted from every 25
attacks: by a similar estimate, the average proportion
of deaths to cases of sickness during the preceding six
years, was 1 death in 34 attacks.
SANITARY PROCEEDINGS.
A summary of the sanitary proceedings which have
been carried on during the year is contained in Table VI.
of the Appendix. In addition to which a considerable
amount of work, consisting in the removal of nuisances,
has been done through the Surveyor, without the intervention
of the Board. All the slaughter-houses and cowhouses
were examined and reported on, previously to the
procuring of licenses by their owners. These measures