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while 1714 were not classified byname. Of the Specified,
the Epidemics amounted to 138, Spitting and Vomiting of
Blood to 7, Consumption and the Wasting of Children to 51,
Diseases of the Heart to 18, Pulmonary Affections to 158,
Brain Diseases to 21, and those of the Digestive Organs to
72; whilst 2 Fractures. 2 Dislocations, 3 cases of Carbuncle,
and 3 of Diseased Knee Joints, occurred in the Surgery of the
year.
The In and Out-Patients of the City of London Hospital
for Diseases of the Chest were 341 and 8,304; and the inmates
treated in the Guardian Asylum—namely, for Diarrhoea
6, Rheumatic Fever 3, Bronchitis and Catarrh 8, and
for other diseases 4—were 21.
I regret that I am not able to supply the Sick List of
Bethnal House Asylum, for the reason that I have not been
so fortunate as to be favoured with the return.
I now pass to the sanitary improvements from March 26th,
1859, to March 25th, 1860. Foremost among these is the
N ew Block of Sewers, No. 8, which comprises " the remainder
of undrained streets in the parish, except such as
will be interfered with by the Main Intercepting Sewers to
be constructed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and
also except such streets as, under the provisions of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, the owners are bound to drain."
Next in importance is the work done within the Vaults.
Invited by Mr. Grainger, the Government Inspector under
the Burials Acts, I accompanied that gentleman to the vaults
under the National Schools, St. John's and St. James the
Less. The Orders in Council consequent on those inspections
are subjoined:—
Order 1.—"That the Coffins contained in the Vaults
under the National Schools attached to St. Matthew's Church,
Bethnal Green, be covered with fresh earth and powdered
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