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question connected with public health that has made
so little progress as the importance and necessity of
ventilation in order to admit of the access of fresh
air. The rich live and sleep in rooms which are
seldom efficiently ventilated. They give parties,
attend theatres, worship in churches, and live in
rooms all badly ventilated. The shops, the workrooms,
the warehouses, the schools of the middle and
lower classes are all badly ventilated. The homes of
the poor are worse than all. No construction of rooms
and houses will ensure ventilation. It requires
constant intelligent attention, and until all classes
are better instructed this dreadful disease will invade
our homes and make desolate our hearths. Added to
the fact of deficient ventilation the introduction of
gas is almost universal. One gas burner consumes
the air of five persons and no provision is made for
carrying off the products of this combustion.
The following tables of the cases of consumption in your
parish for the last five years, will shew you how
constant has been the death from this disease.
1857.
Population.
Deaths from Phthisis.
1857.
1858.
1859.
1860.
1861.
1862.
St. James's Square
Division,
10,753
19
16
15
15
19
15
Golden Square
Division
13,963
25
21
31
35
35
26
Berwick Street
Division,
10,068
16
31
32
32
26
41
Workhouse,
..
27
31
23
30
17
31
Total,
..
87
99
101
112
97
113
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