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It is of the utmost importance that the mortality statistics of
particular districts, and specially of particular areas and streets,
should bo of such exactitude as to form accurate guides to the
conditions influencing the health of their inhabitants.
STATISTICAL TABLES.
The tables at the end of this Report are those adopted by the
Society of Medical Officers of Health, except Table VII., which
is an additional statement, the tables show:—
Table I.—The population, number of inhabited houses,
marriages, births, and deaths during 1895 aud the ten preceeding
years.
Table II. —The annual birth-rate, death-rate, death-rate of
children, and proportion of deaths in Public Institutions.
Table III.—The number of deaths at various ages and from
different causes. A summary of the same.
Table IV.—The number of deaths at all ages from Zymotic,
Pulmonary, and Tubercular Diseases, in the year, and the proportions
to 1,000 of population, and to 1,000 deaths from all
causes; also the number of deaths of infants under one year
of age from Wasting and Convulsive Diseases, aud the proportions
to 1,000 births, and to 1,000 deaths under one year.
Table V.—The number of deaths from the principal Zymotic
diseases in the year and the ten preceeding years, and the proportions
of these deaths to the total deaths during the same
periods.
Table VI.—The Sanitary works carried out in the year 1885.
Table VII.—A statement of the Sanitary works carried out in
each year from 1874 to 1885 inclusive.
METEOROLOGY IN 1885.
The mean temperature for the year was 48.6 degrees, or 0.8
degrees below the average of 44 years, and the mean daily range
of temperature was 15.7 degrees, or 0.1 below the average. The
mean barometric pressure was 29.754 inches, .019 below the
average. 24 inches of rain fell during the year, 1.28 inches
short of the average. As a whole the year was slightly cooler
and drier than the average, but with all favourable to health.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The haphazard manner in which cases of Infectious Disease
become known to the Sanitary Department is greatly to be
regretted. At present no system exists by which Medical Officers
can obtain information at all adequate to the needs of control. It
is a question which sooner or later will have to be faced. The