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1781
REPORT
TO THE VESTRY OF PADDINGTON.
Gentlemen,
Having been requested by the Sanitary
Committee to prepare a Report on the condition of the Parish
during the year 1856, which should exhibit the progress made
in the various measures which have been adopted for its
improvement, I beg to submit to you the following statements:—
I have arranged my material under three heads. Under
the first of these, that of the Vital Statistics of the Population,
I have made it my object to lay down a secure basis of comparison
for future years,—to determine a starting point from
which to measure future increase and improvement. In the
second place I have referred to such of the more important
causes of insalubrity as appeared to me to demand your future
attention. And lastly, I have related the transactions of the
year in so far as concerns the duties of my office, and have
placed before you in a tabular form the amount of Sanitary
work which has been done.