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merits. Many of these visits and inspections have
been made, because of the occurrence of zymotic
disease. In this way, there were 399 inspections
on account of fever, and 552 because of diarrhcea.
These numbers are less than the numbers of preceding
years. In 1859, for example, there were
772 cases of fever visited, and 1,020 of diarrhœa;
and in the year preceding, there were 1,140 of
fever, and 883 of diarrhoea. The last year has
therefore been a healthy year, whether we estimate
it by the mortality returns, or by the returns
of sickness attended among the poor; and the
increase of marriages would show it to have been
a prosperous year.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HY. LETHEBY.
41, Finsbury Square,
March 1861.