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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
were 11 deaths, four of these being illegitimate, and among the
1,457 who had no occupation 33 infantile deaths occurred.
The death-rate per 1,000 births among those employed industrially
was 78 per 1,000, and among those not so employed only 28
per 1,000, but the numbers are so small that no definite opinion
can be expressed as to whether such employment was the cause of
the increased mortality.
Water Supply.
The following Tables, which have been abstracted from the
monthly reports of the Water Examiner to the Local Government
Board, show the results of the analyses of the water of the two
districts supplied for each month during the year.