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About the same number of notifications of erysipelas were received
as in 1895—namely, 99 as against 96. The deaths number 2, with
a death-rate of 0.04, or the same as in 1895, when
ERYSIPELAS.
there were 2 deaths, 5 in 1894 and 4 in 1893.
There have only been 4 deaths from influenza, and there is still
little data from which to draw certain conclusions with regard to the
origin of this complaint. The attacks were of a mild
INFLUENZAChracter, and again quite unlike what was experienced
a few years ago. The deaths for the year 1895 numbered 7.
Opposite will be found a complete chart of the deaths from the
zymotic diseases—namely, small-pox, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
puerperal fever, diarrhoea, cholera, and erysipelas.
I have also prepared the accompanying chart with a view of
showing the relation which existed during the year
WEATHER AND
DISEASE between weather and disease, both in the whole MetroCHART.
polis and Bow.
The lines in the chart indicate the rise and fall of the total and
zymotic death-rates.
Following this Report will be found the Annual Reports of
Inspectors Boyce and Field, the Sanitary Inspectors for the West
and East Divisions of the North District, and I think it
SANITARY right to state that during the year their work has been
WORK. diligently and zealously performed. To the uninitiated
the work of a Sanitary Inspector may appear unimportant and essentially
routine in character, but while their duties are undoubtedly
matters of detail, their work can in no sense be regarded as unimportant.
Without the information obtained by continual inspection
sanitation could not go forward, and while attention to drains, waterpipes,
yards, and bricks and mortar may seem particularly tame and
unhcroic, yet when it is remembered that these officers in discharging