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Deaths from violence, viz:—
Run over by cart through
tailing from the shaft 1 —
Burns 1 —
Drowning — 1
Suffocation 4 3
Fracture of Skull from a J
fall 1 —
Accidental Hoemonhage from want 16
of proper attention
Child birth — 1
Fall on the head at birth 1 —
Poisoning by an overdose
of Chlorodyne — 1
Explosion at Toy-Firework
Factory — 2
Cut-throat 2 —
Suicidal Cut-throat and drowning 1 _
Hanging 1 —
Drowning — 1
Murder by drowning in a
Homicidal Wash-tub — 1 1 2
(Murder by Suffocation 1 —)
Primary came Fracture of ribs and ster-
undetermined num 1
Found drowned 3 —
27 15 42
Sanitation Details of the sanitary proceedings that were
carried out during the year are, as far as they can be so
dealt with, enumerated in Table XII, page 18 The
figures therein contained, represent in a small space a
very extensive amount of sanitary work The numbers,
especially such as relate to the important procedure of
house to house inspection, (which it may be added is
carried on as a daily routine), considerably exceed those
of the previous year The number of houses so inspected
and their sanitary condition recorded in the HouSe-Inspection
book amounted to 4,522, being 73 more than in