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Disease and Mortality among the Union Poor.—
Table V. in the Appendix gives in the usual form a detailed
statement of disease amongst the Union poor during the
year, and the number and severity of the cases treated will
be found to bear favourable comparison with previous
returns. The mortality will be found to be very small
compared with the number of cases treated, many of
them suffering from diseases of the worst type, aggravated
by poverty and absence of cleanliness, or proper food and
nursing, previous to coming under care.
Sanitary Operations in the Sub-District during the
Year 1877.—Appended is an Abstract of the sanitaiy
measures carried out under my supervision and that
of Mr. Pilditch, the Surveyor, by the Inspector of
Nuisances. It goes minutely into details, and speaks
for itself. It will be observed that recourse to magisterial
assistance was only necessary in one case, and in every
case the notices served were ultimately complied with.
While upon this subject I have to report that a decision
has been obtained by the Board where a man whose child,
which was suffering from Small Pox, and living in a van,
and from the circumstances of the case a danger to the
neighbourhood, has been convicted and fined for opposing
a magistrate's order for the child's removal to a special
hospital for the treatment of that disease. This is the more
satisfactory, as it had been previously held that although
an order based upon a medical certificate for the removal of
a person suffering from an infectious disease, and without
proper lodging, might be made by a magistrate, there
was no power to punish any one who refused obedience
thereto.
Abstract of Sanitary Works carried out in East Battersea
during the year ending December 3lst, 1877.
Number of houses inspected 1351
Number of 1st notices served 181
Number of 2nd notices served 8
Number of houses disinfected after Small-pox 179
Number of houses disinfected after Fevers 23