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Disease and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—In
Table V. Appendix are tabulated the numerous cases of
disease, &c., that came under treatment amongst the outdoor
Union poor of this Sub-district, with their resulting
deaths. Of 1,162 cases treated, 49 deaths may be looked
upon as a by no means large percentage.
Violent, Sudden and Uncertified Deaths, Inquests.—There
were, it appears, 13 inquests held in this Sub-district during
18.70. Of these, 9 were ascertained, and pronounced to
be natural deaths, though sudden; 1 suicide; and 1 from
a railway accident. The remaining 2 enquiries were upon
infants newly born. One of these was supposed to have
been wilfully murdered, since it was given in evidence
that a string was found tightly fastened about its neck.
In the other case there was no evidence to show whether
or not the infant had been born alive.
The deaths of 3 infants were registered as not certified
by any medical attendant.
Sanitation of the year.—Table VI, in the Appendix will,
with the usual clearness, show the amount of useful and
necessary sanitary work accomplished during the year.
The addition of 6,619 feet of new sewage to that carried
out in former years cannot, at any rate, be regarded as a
very slight effort to improve the sanitary condition of the
neighbourhood. With as many as 4,521 houses within
the area of this Sub-district (4,329 of which are inhabited),
the supervision of the officers of the Board must necessarily
be required to be unremittingly exercised, in order to
sustain the efficiency of those operations which have been
already carried out, and that this supervision is being
exercised in the right direction, and with most praiseworthy
earnestness, is well shown by the other figures in the Table
referred to. By the usual order of the Board both the
slaughter and cowhouses within the parish received the
usual inspections; and, as I had nothing unfavourable to
report of them, their licences were all renewed.
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