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I need scarcely add that there was no death from
Asiatic cholera.
It is satisfactory to be able to say that, notwithstanding
the heavy mortality due directly and indirectly to influenza
in the early part of the year, and the alarm excited by the
prevalence of Asiatic cholera on the continent at a later
period, the health of the Parish, as shown by the deathrate,
was fairly good.
Table XIII. gives a summary of the sanitary work
done by your Sanitary Inspectors during the 9 months,
included between the 26th March, 1892, and the end of the
year. It has hitherto been the practice in Medical Officers'
reports to give the vital statistics of their parishes or districts
for the 52 weeks ending on the Saturday which is in closest
relation with the actual end of the year, owing to the need of
bringing them into conformity with the Registrar General's
returns which are made in accordance with this arrangement;
but to give the returns of sanitarv works carried out for the
12 months, included between the 26th of March of one year
and the 25th March of the next year, in conformity with
other Vestry reports.
But the Local Government Board requires that henceforth
Medical Officers' reports shall, as regards both vital
statistics and sanitary works, have reference only to the same
period of time, namely, the calendar year. Hence, while in
the present report many vital statistics may be read continuously
with those of former years, my report of works done
relates only to the last 9 months of the year 1892 ; for the
report of works done during the first three months was published
in my last annual report. I have thought it desirable