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comfort such as sanitary works and proper regulations
can alone give."

Dr. Bossey contributed a full report on the mortality of
the district, from which the following are extracts: —
"Bate of Mortality, I From irregular fluctuations in the
population, and from the imperfect registration of the
deaths, the rate of mortality in Woolwich cannot be
very accurately ascertained." (From the number of
buriajs it may be inferred that it was at least 25
per 1,000).
"On the influence of the neighbouring marsh land on
the health of Woolwich I will merely remark that
it adds to the humidity of the air, and produces a
malaria most injurious to the health of the town.
From this malaria the ague, so extensively prevalent
in Woolwich and its vicinity, has its origin, and many
cases of fever, jaundice, enlargement of the liver and
spleen, dropsy, neuralgia, and rheumatism are produced
by the same cause."
"The next circumstance to which I would direct attention
as influencing the health of Woolwich is the
immense quantity of animal and vegetable matter,