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On adding together the death of the four
quarters of the year, it will be found that the
number is 666, which must be regarded as a highly
favourable result.
The death in your parish in the years 1857 and
1856 and previously, will be seen by the following
Table:—
Average death for 10 years previous
to 1856,
775
Death in the year 1856,
682
Ditto „ 1857,
712
Ditto „ 1858,
666
The death-rate of last year is thus found to be 109
below the average of the ten years previous to
1856, and is 18 below the average of the last three
years. Adding the three years since your sanitary
operations commenced, to the previous ten years,
the mortality of 1858 presents us with 100 deaths
less than the average.
It may be thought premature to claim this large
amount of saving of life as due to the sanitary
agencies you have put in force, and were it a
solitary case, further evidence might be demanded ;
but as this result is the uniform sequence of welldirected
measures of sanitary reform, there can
be no doubt that you are justified in attributing
this large diminution of your annual mortality to
the sanitary organization which the Metropolis
Management Act of 1855 was enacted to institute,
and which has since been brought into play.