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Authorities to adopt, the most important to be considered
in anticipation of a further outbreak, of which it is said
there have been already some few indications abroad, as
well as in portions of our great and ever-extending Metropolis.
Sickness and Mortality among the out-door Union Poor.
—Table V. in the appendix sufficiently indicates all that
need be said upon this portion of my report. The proportion
of deaths to cases treated was last year (1865) 43
in 1056. In the present table the deaths are 60 in 1115
cases treated. In neither year is the per centage large, or
by any means unusual.
Accidental, Sudden, and Suspicious Deaths—Inquests.—
To the comments I have offered upon this subject in former
reports I have little to add, further than to state that 19
Coroner's Inquests were held in the parish during 1866, on
the bodies of persons of various ages dying suddenly, by
accident, or under circumstances of more or less suspicion,
and that in many of these cases the inquiries were conducted
and verdicts arrived at with the same indifference
as formerly to medical evidence, or to that testimony
which one would imagine could alone meet the requirements
of the Registration Act, and, as a consequence, contribute
to the prevention of crime.
Sanitation during the Year.—The table No. VI. in the
appendix requires perhaps less comment than any other,
whether local or general, that has been inserted in this
report. It is replete with such information that cannot
fail to impress everyone who may consult it with the conviction
that there has been no lack of energy on the part
of the authorities in this or any other Sub-district, in
endeavouring to accomplish as many of those reforms as
possible, which the legal powers deputed to them will
enable them to prosecute, and which modern science has
shown us to be both practicable and necessary as a means
of rendering ourselves more healthy. Besides the sanitation
referred to in the Table, which has been unusually extensive
during the past year, it is fit I should state that all the