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In addition to which 23 cases were submitted to the Coroner
as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, making a total of 60
cases investigated by him during the year in East Battersea.
Social Position.—The relative proportions of deceased
persons in the several grades of the social scale were as
follows:—
No. per cent.
Nobility and Gentry 2 = -2
Professional Class 31 = 2.6
Middle and Trading Class 173 = 14.6
Industrial and Labouring Class 978 = 82.6
Totals 1184 100.0
The most noticeable feature in the above table is the steady
diminution year by year of the few persons who may be
classed among the nobility and gentry. Against this is a
rapid increase in both the professional and trading classes,
the result of the conversion of the sub-district from a purely
agricultural, to a manufacturing and commercial suburb.
Vaccination.—The register of public vaccination shews that
tiie following successful operations were performed at the
appointed station by the Public Vaccinator:—
Primary Vaccinations 1,309
Re-vaccinations 134
Total 1,443
being a slight increase on the numbers of the preceding year.
About one half of the children born in the sub-district were
va cinated at the public station, a diminution compared with
for.ner years when the majority of such infants were presented
there for vaccination.
Bakehouses.—1 here are 42 bakehouses in the sub-district,
and they have each been inspected twice during the year.
Three notices to cleanse and white-wash were carried out,