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48 to 82, those from different kinds of continued fever
from 35 to 40, and those from Small-pox from 19 to 34.
Further, owing mainly to the excessive heat of the summer
months, the deaths from diarrhœal diseases rose from
122 to 240. The fever deaths included one death from
true Typhus, due to a limited outbreak of the disease in
Verney Flats, a tenement house situated in No. 2 Ward,
close to Rotherhithe. This outbreak was speedily suppressed.
But it has been followed a few months later (as
I shall shew in my next annual report), by a more severe
outbreak of the same disease in another part of the parish.
On the whole, however, there can be no doubt that
the year 1884 was a healthy year.
The work done by the Inspectors of Nuisances during
the twelve months ending March, 25, 1885, is recorded in
Tables XIV. and XV.
During this period 13,629 houses were inspected, and
7,151 re-inspections were made; 3,474 first notices and
131 second notices were served in respect of these inspections;
and in 16 cases only was it necessary to
summons the persons on whom notices had been served.
There is nothing in these returns to which special
attention need be called. They indicate the performance
of a large amount of sanitary work, but the work is all of
the usual unsensational character.
In concluding my Report I have to express my high
appreciation of the manner in which the Inspectors of
Nuisances have performed their duties; and, while congratulating
the late inspector, Mr. Samuel Fisher, on his
advancement to a higher post in the service of the Vestry,
my regret at losing his valuable services as a member of
the Sanitary staff.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. S. BRISTOWE.