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mate estimate of the amount as well as of the intensity of
the sickness which has prevailed generally throughout the
Sub-district. By assuming the proportion which the
deaths bear to the cases of sickness amongst the parochial
poor as the proportion borne by the deaths to the cases of
sickness amongst all classes, the total amount of sickness
which prevailed during the past year is calculated to have
affected about 46 per cent, of the population, representing
one death in every 27 cases of sickness; the average of
the preceding six years, was about 50 per cent, of the
population.
Violent Deaths-Inquests-Uncertified Deaths-26
inquests were held during the year with the following
results, viz:—From Natural Causes, 11; from Violence,
15, of which latter, 11 were the results of Accident; 1
of Suicide; 1 of Execution ; and 2 of causes unknown.
The number of unattested deaths, it is satisfactory to
find, has gradually diminished during the last few years,
and during the past year one death only was registered
without the usual medical certificate; still it must be
urged, as has been repeatedly done in previous Reports,
that security of life and every other interest of society
require that not even a single death should be registered
without the intervention of medical testimony of its cause.
Sanitary Proceedings.—A brief summary of the
principal sanitary proceedings, which were carried out
during the year is, as usual, contained in Table 6
(Appendix). A very much larger amount of work
generally will be found recorded than heretofore, and
especially in the number of inspections in the purification
of infected houses, and the removal of nuisances; ten cases
of the latter necessitated an appeal to the law for their
abatement. All the slaughter-houses and cowhouses of
the Sub-district were examined and reported on previous
to the renewal of their owners licenses. Comprehensive
regulations have been recently issued by the Metropolitan
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