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therewith. Afterwards he took up the work of
Inspector Parsons, who resigned office. The new Inspector,
C. Biorn, has, however, been steadily progressing
with the work since his appointment. The streets
already visited, from house to house, show traces of
former inspection, inasmuch as landlords who let out
houses in tenements are becoming aware of their
responsibility and show a disposition to white-wash
and cleanse, to keep down overcrowding, and get rid
of dirty people.
Sanitary Districts.
Since the exact population of all the streets in the
Parish has been obtained from the census return of
1871, I have been able to make a more perfect subdivision
of the Parish in sections, forming Sanitary
districts, having special reference to the social status
of the inhabitants, and their kind of house accommodation.
The necessity for this is very obvious when
we find death rates widely differ in different parts of
a Parish, containing a population of above 100,000.
It avails little to know that the general death rate of
the Parish is annually less than 20 per 1000 in the population,
and stands lowest of any large Metropolitan
district, when we find streets and whole districts, equal
in population to good sized towns and villages, with a
death rate of 30 to 40 per 1000 of their inhabitants.
Large registration statistics are utterly useless for
sanitary inquiries. By mixing up in the general
statistics all kinds of populations widely differing in
their pursuits and prominent characteristics, the sanitary
observer loses the evidence which he should endeavour