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great and consuming plague of this country,
like the Zymotic diseases, will in future be
regarded as preventible by Sanitary Works for
promoting public health. In most of our large
towns, consumptive deaths ranged annually from
25 to 50 per 10,000 of the population; but Dr.
Buchanan has shown that in 25 towns visited by
him in 1865-66, where Sanitary Works have been
carried out, a marked change in the death-rate had
occurred, varing from 4½ to 32 per cent. diminution
of death-rate; and he found that consumption
was reduced from one-half to one-third its
former ravages.
Prevailing Diseases.
An attempt has been made to ascertain the
exact seat of epidemic and other diseases in the
Parish, and especially those occurring amongst the
poor.
I have been materially aided in my endeavours
by returns which have been procured weekly from
books of Parochial Medical Officers, from the
register of St. Mary's Hospital, from the Star Street
Dispensary, the Kilburn Dispensary, and from the
Western General Dispensary, and I am indebted to
the courtesy of W. M. Moore, Esq., the registrar,
and John Wilson, Esq., treasurer of St. Mary's
Hospital; to Dr. Westmacot, Dr. Smith, Dr.
Prince, Mr. Beale, Mr. Shuttleworth, for notices of