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recommendation relative to the mode of obtaining
returns of the births and deaths of this Parish.
For many years previous to December 30th, these
returns had been sent from the Registrar-Generals
Office to Medical Officers of Health of the Metropolis;
it was an uuusual course, and attended with some
inconvenience, but adopted with a desire to aid the
labors of Medical Officers of Health. Under the new
Registration Act, the duty of procuring such returns
as may be required for sanitary purposes is imposed
upon the Sanitary Authorities, and I need scarcely say
that they cannot get on without them ; the fact being
that they are no less essential for sanitary work in any
district than appreciated as they deserve to be by the
public.
The arrangement I have made with the two Registrars
of this Parish, and which has been duly sanctioned
by the Vestry is this:—the returns of births and
deaths are made up weekly up to Saturday night,
and are sent on the following Monday on the forms
provided for that purpose. The expense agreed upon
is 25s. for the first 50 entries each quarter, and 2d. for
each succeeding entry; and it is agreed that notice of
deaths from epidemic forms of disease shall be sent at
once during epidemic seasons, or at the request of the
Medical Officer of Health.
It was ascertained that any attempt to procure
these returns without payment to the Registrars would
be futile, more particularly as in the Registration Act
it was settled that a claim of not less than 2d. could
be made for the work imposed upon the Registrars.