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be available, affording the sick poor a much better chance
of recovery than in their own squalid and often miserable
homes. Under the circumstances detailed above it might
be anticipated that lung diseases would head the list of
cases attended, 252, of which 5 died. Other diseases
included maladies of almost every known variety, but
they were principally the result of debility or exposure
to the inclemency of the weather, such as Rheumatism, and
these cases numbered 753 with 7 deaths. From Phthisis
alone 46 cases were attended with 1 death.
Diseases of the Zymotic or Epidemic class frequently
demand treatment. Thus Small Pox occurred in 14 cases,
Measles 25 cases, Scarlatina 25 cases, (all these without a
single death in the sub-district), Whooping Cough 32 cases
with one death, Diarrhœa 25 cases with one death,
Fever 11 cases, and Erysipelas 12 cases, without a death in
either disease. Some, however, of these cases were removed
to Hospitals where a fatal termination may have occurred,
but there is no means of ascertaining the number.
Sanitation in the Sub-district during 1879.—The following
abstract from the books of the Inspector of N uisances
gives in detail the Sanitary operations during the period
under report, and speaks for itself.