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REPORT
TO THE VESTRY OF PADDINGTON.
Vestry Hall;
May 26th, 1875.
To THE
Rev. Chairman and Gentlemen,
This Annual Report is the Eighth and the last
time I shall have the honor of collecting and distributing
information upon the Sanitary and vital statistics
of your parish. In the whole series of Reports, such
records have been presented to you as will be found
useful to a Sanitary authority, and I hope available
in the future, and for practical ends, presuming as I
do, that Sanitary organization has in view the limiting
or prevention of certain classes of disease, the causes
of which are ascertainable and removable. Sanitary
authorities are yet very indifferent to the study of
practical Hygiene, and the large amount of life sacrificed
by the neglect of means at their command for improving
the public health. For example—The Zymotic
diseases sweep through the country year after year and