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for the year ending December 31st, 1862," gives the New
Patients as 2043; of whom "the average number daily
attended at their own homes, amounted to 20, and the average
daily attendance at the Dispensary amounted to 57." There
"died 58."
In the City of London Hospital, "the number of Inpatients
under treatment last year was 440, and the number
of Out-patients was 9074, while the average attendance each
week was 1041."
The Practice in the Guardian Asylum consisted of 1 case
of Small Pox, 6 of Diarrhoea, 2 of Rheumatic Fever, 6 of
Catarrh, and 5 of other forms of disease.
I now pass to the Sanitary Miscellanea from Ladyday,
1861, to Lady-day, 1862. For the figures I am
indebted to your Surveyor, who has very kindly filled up
Table 12. It is there shown that 720 Houses were Inspected,
203 Drains Constructed, 249 Drains Trapped and 86 Improved,
that 357 Cesspools were Filled up and 80 Emptied,
that 89 New Closets were Constructed and 302 Improved,
that the Dust Removals amounted to 16,700, the Gullies made
to 120, the Gullies Emptied to 2576, the Gullies Trapped to
150, and the Houses connected with Sewers to 173.
Besides all these—the suppression of Trade Nuisances, the
checking of Overcrowding, the improvements in Paving and
Ventilation, the cleansing of certain Filthy Dwellings, the
doing away (in many instances) with the keeping of Pigs,
and the inspection and supervision of the Cow and Slaughterhouses,
have doubtless, as "preventive agencies," warded off
and blotted out disease.
Our statistical history shows in 1862:—
1. That in comparison with London, our Birth and Death
Rates were both in excess.
2. That where 23.5 per 1000 of the population died in
London, 23.8 per 1000 died in Bethnal Green.
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