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year they formed nearly 23½ per cent, of the entire mortality.
Scarlatina, Diarrhoea, Diptheria, Whooping Cough, and
Small Pox were less fatal than in 1863, whilst the deaths
from Typhus and Measles were more numerous.
The Sanitary Improvements effected between the 25th
March, 1864, and the 25th March, 1865, are shown in
Table I, and have been regularly brought under the notice
of the General Purposes Committee, in the fortnightly
Reports of the Medical Officer. From this Table it will be
seen that 2760 cases of Nuisances have received attention
and been remedied, or removed, to effect which, in most cases,
several visits from the Inspectors were necessary; (>84
notices were served, and 19 Summonses required to be taken
out; 519 houses in a dirty state, or rendered unwholesome
in consequence of Fever, have been cleansed ; 489 houses
with bad drainage, drained ; £08 cesspools where drainage
was not available, emptied; 127 drain obstructions, removed
; 388 accumulations of dung, garbage, dust, &c.,
removed; 57 offensive smells from trades, &c., abated; 11
foul urinals cleansed ; 37 lots of pigs, removed or nuisance
therefrom abated ; 97 yards paved; 132 new ashpits constructed
; 159 houses supplied with water.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
These have continued under inspection, and cleanliness
enforced. Licenses were granted for 121 ; in two instances
the places being unfit for the purpose, licenses were opposed
on the recommendation of the Medical Officer, and refused
by the Magistrates.