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of sickness amongst the out-door Union poor of this parish,
as well as the resulting mortality during the year 1863.
Of 463 cases treated, which rather exceeds the number
in the preceding year, 21 only succumbed to disease,
accident, &c., thus giving about the same small per centage
as noted on the average of the past seven years.
The most fatal diseases afflicting the Union poor, as
indeed all other classes in the sub-district, were those of
the pulmonary organs, including Phthisis, due, no doubt, to
the ever-changing atmospheric conditions which marked the
entire year.
It is most gratifying to note that, of the 32 deaths which
occurred amongst all classes from zymotic diseases, the
insignificant number of four only took place amongst the
pauper class; a result all the more pleasing, seeing that
before the dwelling-places of the poor were cared for by
judicious sanitation, applied under the Local Management
Act, the picture was reversed, and the majority of deaths
from epidemics was always found on the side of the indigent
portion of the population.
sanitation of the past year.
In Table VI., Appendix, will be found a summary of the
sanitary operations carried out in this parish during the
past year. They have been both numerous and important,
and have been, it appears, as last year, all effected without
magisterial interference.
Amongst the most important of these operations, may be
named the completion of 3,555 feet of new sewerage, the
hamlet of Roehampton participating largely in the benefits
of the same.
In addition to the usual inspections of the Slaughterhouses
and Cow-houses in the sub-district, the Bakehouses