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which class indifference to the domestic requirements of
infancy, improvident and dirty habits, and overcrowding
are always to be greatly deplored, but for which, it is
acknowledged by all, to be very difficult to find a remedy
that shall be very speedy in its operation, or very lasting
in its effects.
Amongst those who have succumbed to old age or
natural decay (43) without the registration of any other
causes of death, 2 appear in the table as bordering on 60,
19 between 60 and 80, and 22 over 80, the oldest person
amongst the latter having reached his 94th year. The
deaths of this aged person took place in the Union Workhouse,
in which institution three others succumbed during
the year at ages over 90, and a large number between 80
and 90.
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—To
ascertain the prevailing diseases amongst the out-door
Union poor, as well as their fatality during the past year,
Table V., Appendix, need only to be consulted, and it will
be seen that the ratio of deaths to the cases treated is
very small, being only 35 in 1,286. It will be seen however
that amongst the labouring or industrial class generally
(which in the table includes the Union poor), the
deaths just exactly double those of the three other
classes enumerated in the columns referring to social
position, and this very pointedly indicates to what parts of
the Sub-district sanitary proceedings should be more
particularly directed.
Sanitation during the year.—Referring to Table VI. in
the Appendix, it will be scarcely necessary to point to the
fact of the amount of sanitary work having been very
considerable during the year, and the description of work
of the greatest possible importance, especially in the
matter of sewerage.
As many as 2,649 inspections of houses and premises
were made, resulting, it will be seen, in the cleansing and
repair of 203 unwholesome houses, to the construction, in
connection with the main sewer, of 637 drains, to the
abolition of 105 cesspools, and to the supply of water to
1,247 houses.
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