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were in the receipt of weekly wages. Comment is
unnecessary.
Some of the 14 deaths registered from typhoid-fever
were certainly "imported" into the district, and of
others it may be fairly questioned whether they were
genuine cases of enteric or typhoid fever, whilst in a
few instances the apparent cause was the escape of
sewer air from defective soil pipes and untrapped
drains.
To summarise my remarks under this head, I do
not hesitate to say, that if proper sanitary precautions
had been adopted, of the 286 persons who succumbed
to these diseases, very many would have escaped, and
that suffering from one or other of these diseases, if
their surroundings had been more favorable, irrespective
altogether of medical treatment, many of these little
ones, for such they were, "had not died."
VACCINATION.
Table VII., furnished by the Vaccination Officer of
the Parish, Mr. Dudman, shows that more than 91 per
cent. of the 2,905 children whose births were registered
in the parish were either successfully vaccinated, or
died before being vaccinated, and that of a small percentage
only of the remainder is there no return as to
vaccination.
SANITARY WORK.
Table VI. imperfectly shows the precise nature and
the amount of the work done by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Much of their time was occupied in investigating and