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[???]I me. As no complaints have reached my ear, 1 am naturally led
[???](conclude that the nuisance is much abated. Proper surveillance,
[???]Iwever, shall be exercised over this place, the spirit of this Board
[???]ling, not to disturb wantonly any man in the exercise of his calling,
[???]It at the same time, they have a duty to perform towards the iu[???]jbitants,
who have much suffered from these patent manure factories,
[???]i The intense frost prevalent during part of last month (the tlier[???]■umeter
having fallen, in the morning of the 19th December, at
[???]1a.m., in the Tunnel-yard, to 14° or 18° below the freezing point),
[???]Id the good effect of suppressing foul effluvia. Four notices have
[???]Jen served, one on each of the owners respectively of the houses
[???]fcntioned in the Agenda Paper.
[???]f'The miserably scanty supply of water from the Southwark Water
[???]tmipany; and the time which elapses before water can be procured
[???]Dm them in cases of fire in Rotherhithe, have been frequently
[???]Jought before the parish authorities. The latter circumstance,
dating to accidental fires, I shall merely mention, as it is not
imediately connected with my duties, and has been noticed in the
[???]Ifcal journal; but as an abundant supply of water conduces not only
[???]ft the cleanliness and comfort, but also to the health of all classes,
[???]ihall never fail, while holding the responsible office of Medical Officer
[???]i Health, to bring it under your notice. In a letter addressed to
[???]e by Mr. Slipper on the 2nd current, that gentleman states that
[???]s tenants in Glebe-terrace; and also the inhabitants of Clare Hall[???]Htages,
Jamaica-level, have been ten days without water supply.
[???]] The elapsed month, December, 1859, has been one of the most
[???]fckly of the year. The mortality has been augmented by the scarlet
[???]!ver, which has steadily extended itself since the month of Septern[???]:r.
Thus, in October, three deaths were recorded as having been
[???]roduced by that cause; in November, nine; and in December,
[???]furteen—the focus of the complaint being Swan-lane and the adja-
[???]Int streets. In the lower part of the parish, very few cases have
[???]therto appeared. The year 1859 was, upon the whole, a healthy
[???]le. Four hundred aud eighty deaths were registered in Rother[???]Ithe
from January 1st to December 31st, 1859, which, taking the
[???]ppulation at twenty-one thousand, would show a death-rate of about
[???]venty-two in the thousand, or about the average mortality of this
[???]metropolis. During the same period, there were eight hundred and
[???]fty-four births, showing an excess of three hundred and seventy-four
Births over the deaths.
Of the births, four hundred and twenty were males, and four hundred
and thirty-four females. Of the deaths, two hundred and sixty[???]ve
were males, and two hundred and fifteen females.
Thus we see, that in Rotherhithe last year, fourteen more females
[???]ere bom than males, the contrary being the rate for the whole