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quarter of the year is made to include 14 instead of
13 weeks, the third was the most fatal quarter of the
year. This is quite exceptional, the first and last (or
winter) quarters being, as a rule, those in which the
mortality is highest. The third quarter was the one
in which diarrhoea was so remarkably fatal, and during
it the mortality among young children was excessive;
these facts, dependent as has been pointed out on the intense
heat of the weather, are sufficient to explain the
phenomenon. Hooping-cough was most fatal during
the first two quarters of the year, Measles during the
second quarter, and Scarlet Fever and Small-pox during
the fourth quarter *
The Sanitary work which has been carried out between
March 25th, 1868, and March 25th, 1869, is
summarised in Table V. From this it will be seen
that 5408 houses have been systematically inspected;
that 61 cowhouses, 51 slaughterhouses, 127 bakehouses,
and 49 workshops have been under supervision;
and that 581 miscellaneous complaints and 1788 dust
complaints have been attended to. In relation to
these, 865 first notices and 70 second notices have
been served, and 11 summonses have been taken out.
In addition to the removals of dust and abatement
of miscellaneous nuisances, and to sanitary works
• The births and deaths, and the deaths from Zymotic diseases, annually from
1861, are given in tables III. and IV.