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prevalence of Zymotic Disease. Seventy-nine
persons died of Scarlet Fever, and twenty-six of
Diarrhoea. Nearly all these cases were individually
dealt with, and means taken to prevent their further
spread. Amongst the poor, disinfectants were
distributed and personal aid was given wherever
infectious diseases prevailed. The record of 1871
is in the present report.
I have thus endeavoured to sketch what has
been done for the last sixteen years, in the hope
that it may encourage you to proceed in a course
which has so amply repaid the cost it has demanded.
Much remains to be done in the parish, and with
the doing that, the same rewards will follow. The
money saved must, with all, be regarded as a
sufficient justification of your sanitary work; but
when we consider the suffering prevented, the agony
saved, and the life now happy which must have been
lost, we must feel that the power of preventing death
and disease is one of the most blessed gifts put
into the hands of man by a beneficient Providence,
to exercise for the benefit of his fellow creatures.
I have the honor to be,
Rev. Sir, My Lords, and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
EDWIN LANKESTER.