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3
TO THE VESTRY
OF
The Parish of St. James's, Westminster.
Reverend Sir, My Lords, and Gentlemen,
It becomes my duty to lay before you my
Annual Report for the year 1865, making my tenth
Report since I have had the honor of holding the
post of Medical Officer of Health in your Parish.
This Report will be accompanied as usual with a
table of the causes of death for each quarter, and in
each division of the Parish, and a summary of the
Sanitary Inspector's work. These documents embrace
a large number of important facts, to some of
which I have been in the habit of calling your
attention in years past, more especially those which
have called forth either special remarks from myself
in my fortnightly Reports, or special action on the
part of the Vestry.
MORTALITY OF THE YEAR 1865.
The gross mortality of the Parish is a fact
which first demands our attention, and I find that
during the past year the number of deaths amounted