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Sanitary Requirements of District:
(1) Much still remains to be done to render the courts and alleys of the Town
fit for human habitation.
(2) The more efficient ventilating of the public sewers, and more stringent
regulations as to the efficient ventilation of private house drains.
(3) In my opinion the Public Recreation Grounds (now being laid out), are
a most important sanitary requirement of the District.
General Death Rate.—1895, 19-5 ; 1896, 17-1.
England and Wales.—1895, 18-7 ; 1896, 17*1.
Infantile Mortality.—Rate per 1,000 births registered, 1896, 148-99; 1895, 162-62.
England and Wales, 1895, 160.
„ „ 1896, 148.
In connection with the Infant Mortality, 1 feel strongly of opinion that the
measures which have of late been taken to rectify insanitary dwellings, leaking
and defective drains and sewers, and other sanitary defects are likely to have an
appreciable effect on the rate of Infantile Mortality, as well as the number of
infants attacked by summer Diarrhoea.
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Birth-Rate.=1896, 43*30 per 1,000 of the estimated population ; 1895, 43*31.
Birth-Rate.—England and Wales, 1896, 29-7; 1895, 30-3.

Annual rate per 1,000 persons living, 1896, 1.8; Rate for 1895, 5.31;
Annual rate for England and Wales, 1896, 2.18.
It will be observed that this compares very favourably with the
Rate for 1895.