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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT
by
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D. Lond.,
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to, and Lecturer on
Medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine at the College.
of Surgeons.
Gentlemen,
Owing to circumstances which it is now
too late to obviate, my general statistics of births,
and deaths for the year 1875 comprise those of 53.
instead of 52 weeks, having been made to include
the returns for the week ending Saturday, January
2nd, 1875, which were also incorporated in my last
year's annual report. The matter is one of no serious,
importance; for every few years the inclusion of the
statistics of 53 weeks in the year becomes necessary;
and allowance has, of course, then to be made in instituting
statistical comparisons between those and
other years. It will be necessary for me to take the