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In the result it appears that in the year 1873 the
birth rate was high, the death rate low; that no
zymotic disease assumed aggravated epidemic proportions,
while several of the more important of them
caused an exceptionally low mortality; and that,
notwithstanding the fact that inflammatory affections
of the lungs were in the last quarter of the year
unusually fatal, the health of the parish was
remarkably good.
The sanitary work accomplished during the 12
months ending on the 25th March, 1874, was
considerable, though numerically less than that
executed in either of the previous two years. This
was partly due to the fact that a good deal of the time
of two of the Inspectors has been devoted to the
performance of duties in relation to the Adulteration
Act; partly to the fact that one of the Inspectors,
Waters, who was ill at the commencement of the
year, soon became too ill to perform any duties at all.
Of the Inspectors whose names appear in the Table,
Cooper and Fraser only worked during the whole of
the year; Wood did duty for nine months, being
superannuated at Christmas; Waters performed a few
weeks' work only; and McKay, who was appointed at
Michaelmas, for the purposes of the Adulteration