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entire sickness and its results, which is accurately known,
the total amount of sickness which has prevailed generally
throughout the parish (and of which there is, of course, no
record) may be approximately estimated. By assuming
the ratio of deaths to the cases of sickness amongst the
poor as the ratio for the entire sub-district, it would appear
that the total cases of sickness which came under treatment
during the year must have amounted to not less than 66 per
cent. of the population, and that one death occurred in
every 31 attacks of sickness; in the preceding year each
death represented 25 attacks. During the past 7 years the
proportion was one death in 33 attacks. So that although
somewhat greater than the average, the intensity of
disease was less during the past than during the preceding
year in the proportion represented by the figures 31 and 25.
sanitary proceedings.
In Table VI. of the Appendix is contained a summary
of the sanitary proceedings which have been carried out
during the year under the superintendence of your surveyor.
They have all, it is satisfactory to observe, been conducted
without the intervention of the law. In addition to these,
all the Slaughter-houses and Cow-houses of the sub-district
were examined and reported on as usual before the renewal
of their owners' licences.
The great nuisance to the town arising from the mode
of dwelling adopted by the gipsies who encamp in large
numbers by the side of the York Road, was investigated,
and specially reported on. In December, at the
period of my report, there were 14 vans and 33 tents,
the former containing 63, and the latter 154 persons
—in all 217 persons of all ages. Their mode of existence
was found to be so void of the usages of civilized life,