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79
STEEATHAM,
INCLUDING
BALHAM AND TOOTING.
It is with great satisfaction that I am enabled to give
a very favourable report of the health of this sub-district
during the year 1885.
The total mortality was considerably below that of
the previous year, whilst the death-rate was below the
average death-rate of the last ten years. The total
mortality from Zymotic diseases was also below the
average, and the death-rate from these diseases is only
1.1 per thousand, the lowest recorded during the
decade.
No death occurred from either Small-pox or Scarlet
Fever, nor did any of the diseases in the Zymotic class
become at any time epidemic. These facts alone point
to a high standard of health, and are sufficient evidence
of the care and vigilance of those entrusted with the
direction and carrying out of sanitary measures.