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the Registrar-General, be in accordance with fact, or whether
that growth has been in a reduced ratio, can only be ascertained
when the next census is taken. I am inclined, however,
to adopt the latter view.
It is a matter of regret amongst those the most interested
in sanitary matters, that ten years should be allowed to
intervene between each official enumeration of the population.
When that period is approaching its term, any estimate,
however carefully prepared, may in a large measure either
be in advance or fall behind the actual figures. It is needless
to say that such a basis, and the one upon which all
health and sanitary statistics must be founded, is unreliable.
The organisation of a quinquennial census would result in
securing a closer approximation to truth in these estimates.
In order as far as possible to exclude any element of
inaccuracy from the death statistics, the record of the deaths
of parishioners who die in extra-parochial institutions and
that of those who, although they be not parishioners, yet die
in the public institutions of Lambeth, is noted, the one to be
added to and the other deducted from the returns proper to
the district.
The Staff of Sanitary Inspectors.
The question of the appointment of additional Inspectors
upon the Sanitary Staff has already been discussed. A
resolution embodied in a Report coming down from your
Sanitary Committee has introduced the subject to the notice
of your Vestry. The Committee had considered at some
length the condition of the Department in respect to the
duties it was called upon to perform, and the relative strength
of its Staff. The two quantities were found to be disproportionatc,
and a scheme of reorganization involving the
appointment of additional Inspectors and a clerical assistant
was submitted to the approval of your Vestry. The