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41°.5; 6 deaths in the fourth quarter, with a mean temperature
of 41°.6; 7 deaths in the second quarter, with
54°.6 mean temperature; and in the third quarter, 21
deaths, with a mean temperature of 60°.8.
I would again beg to direct attention to the very
mischievous practice of school managers, which permits
the return to school of children recovering from infectious
diseases. Such a practice, which School Board official
zeal in enforcing attendance very generally promotes, is,
I am satisfied by experience, one of the most fruitful
sources of the propagation of such diseases, and ought
therefore to be most jealously guarded against.-(See
Annual Report for 1874, pages 26 and 27.)
Sichiess and Mortality amongst the Parochial Poor.—
Table 5 (Appendix) exhibits the nature, amount, and
fatality of the sickness which came under treatment
amongst the parochial poor. The figures therein contained,
especially those relating to Epidemic disease, will
be found to furnish further well-marked evidence corroborative
of the indications already derived from the deathregister,
of the highly favourable state of this Sub-district
during the past year. The amount is found to have been
considerably less than half the average of the previous ten
years, and even somewhat less than that of the previous
year, which was exceptionally low; the fatality was below
the average amount, forming 3.7 per cent, only of all cases
of sickness. The amount of Epidemic disease which
prevailed was scarcely more than one-third the average,
and its fatality (inclusive of the cases which died in
Hospital) less than half the average. The total amount of
sickness, with its results, which has prevailed generally, if
accurately known, would furnish the best exposition of the
condition of the health of any locality. In the absence of
the possibility of procuring such a record, the figures in
the Table above referred to, which show precisely the
sickness and mortality of a considerable portion of the
population, may be made available for deriving an