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deaths were 10 in number, the deceased persons varying in
age from 70 to 90 years. Besides these there were 25
persons of advanced life registered within the year as
having yielded to disease or accident, the oldest of those
dying within two years of an entire century of existence,
viz., at 98. Another of these aged persons died at 92, and
a third at 90.
Social Positions of the Deceased.—It has seldom been
the case in this Sub-district that the deaths amongst the
working classes have so greatly exceeded those of the three
other classes named in the table as to call for any particular
remark. The relative numbers in the past year were 64
only amongst the working classes, against 96 amongst the
three classes above them in the social scale. From this
fact it may be fairly inferred that the industrial section of
the inhabitants have reaped as large an amount of benefit
from sanitation as those in a superior condition of life.
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—
Referring to Table V., Appendix, the percentage of deaths
to cases treated, will be found to be small, viz., 13 to 246.
This, however, is by no means so small as we may reasonably
expect it to be when the full benefit and effects of the
new sewerage works come to be felt in those localities
specially occupied by the indigent.
But two cases of Small Pox appear to have been treated
amongst the Union poor during the entire year, neither of
which resulted in death. The new Act relating to Vaccination,
I have every reason to believe, has been of considerable
benefit to this Sub-district, in bringing many more
children under the desired protection than was the ease
before such Act came into operation. The measure will, it
is thought, require considerable amendment to render it
perfectly satisfactory. A Compulsory Act should allow no
child to escape Vaccination, and its penal clauses should be
enforced alike on rich and poor.
Violent Deaths, Deaths from Accident, Inquests.—There
occurred 3 deaths from Burns or Scalds in the past year,
upon two of which Coroner's inquiries were held, and