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REPORT.
Gentlemkn,
I have the pleasure of laying before you the .Nineteenth Annual
Report, which I venture to hope may be the means of conveying to the
Members of the "Vestry some interesting and useful information upon the
proceedings in regard to Vital Statistics during the past twelve months,
and also in regard to the Sanitary Matters for the same period. For tho
collection and arrangement of the latter, due care and attention has been
devoted for the purpose of ensuring accuracy, and placing them before
you in such a form that they be readily understood.
I am sorry that it should devolve upon me, at the outset of my task,
to have to state that the compilation of this Report has been effected
under difficulties such as have not been encountered in former years, in
consequence of not receiving returns which were previously furnished
weekly to the Medical Officers of Health of the various parishes and
districts within the Metropolitan area. The documents in question
contained information of a nature which rendered it highly desirable that
they should be supplied with promptitude and regularity to all Medical
Officers of Health appointed under the Metropolis Local Management
Act, as they set forth the number of children born in each place, and
showed the relative proportions of the sexes in these additions to the
population. They also afforded particulars of every death occurring
within the limits to which they severally related, specifying in each case
the sex and age of the deceased person, the address where the event took
place, and the cause from which it resulted.
But before proceeding further with this subject, it may, perhaps, be as