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wealth. The value of human life is therefore a
calculable quantity. The charges for funerals, for
illnesses, for work not done, for poor's rates, all the
results of disease and death, can be easily estimated.
J calculate, at the very lowest, that the sum thus
saved, not only to the Parish of St. James, Westminster,
but to the community at large, could not
be set down at a sum less than £50,000.
That this saving has not been effected without a
considerable amount of work, will be seen by the
following table, which gives an account of some of
the sanitary work done in the last 16 years.
YEARS.
Nuisances
Removed.
Houses Drained
and Drains
Repaired.
Cesspools
Filled up.
1856
476
35
2
1857
1093
92
56
1858
1690
119
64
1859
1541
71
28
1860
1281
143
24
1861
1574
38
23
*1862
1143
35
10
*1863
1020
18
10
*1864
979
17
4
*1865
1448
80
7
†1866
3799
63
6
†1867
4235
61
7
†1868
5213
88
3
†1869
5614
98
5
†1870
8590
63
6
†1871
8411
53
3
Total
41,304
1,074
258
* During these years the superintending vaccination was placed in the
hands of the Sanitary Inspector.
† During the prevalence of Cholera, in 1866, an Assistant Inspector of
Nuisances was appointed, who has since been continued.