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What is their distribution in houses, tenements, and
rooms, and what is the relation to soil or topographical
situation?
What influence does overcrowding and domestic
sanitation bear to the deaths recorded?
What influence is exerted on the death rate by diet,
alcoholism and social and economic conditions of the
family?
What is the relation between occupation, industrial
conditions and fatigue and the deaths of a district, and
between the deaths and the factories, workshops, workplaces
and homes where the occupation is followed?
What is the number and character of the deaths
due to conditions originating in childhood, or to heredity,
diathesis or disposition of body?
What is the number and character of the deaths
which have occurred in the area which appear to be due
in large degree to inadequate treatment?"
There is also another very important source of information
which is not being properly utilised at the present time—that is
the information relating to sickness, as noted on the records of
the consultation Centres, and this information should be available
to assist in the general survey of all circumstances that is
necessary before an accurate picture of sanitary environment can
be formed.
Attendances at the Centres should be filed in streets; notifications
of births should be filed in streets; infantile diarrhoea,
infantile deaths, etc., should be investigated and tabulated in the
same manner, so that comparison as to streets, not only large
wards, should be possible; it should be possible to get information