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this report of the high standard of health attained by this
Sub-district during the past year. It also shews that this
satisfactory condition, as represented by a low death-rate,
a high birth-rate, and by a great diminution of infant
mortality as well as of general sickness, was essentially
dependent on a less prevalence of those diseases which it
is the especial object of sanitation to diminish and prevent.
And it also shews, concurrently with a less prevalence of
these diseases, a diminution in the amount of mortality
borne by the labouring classes in proportion to the other
classes of the inhabitants, a result which must be gratifying
in itself, as well as affording an indication of the
direction in which future measures of sanitation can be
successfully projected.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandsicorth,