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Valuable as every human life is, the number may seem to
some too small which is saved by the machinery at your command.
In your anxiety to do good, some amongst you may
be impatient for speedier and more signal triumphs over the
forms of pestilence that have for so long a time held their
abode unchallenged in the habitations of the poor. To those
who have this feeling, it will be a satisfaction to reflect, that
every individual decrease in the amount of deaths, bears witness
to a far more considerable diminution in the numbers
of those cases in which the health is often irremediably broken
down under the ravage of disease, though life itself is
ultimately spared.
But the absolute decrease in the amount of deaths, from
preventible diseases, during the past year, has been, .in itself,
not insignificant. In the subjoined tables—in which, as in
my previous Annual Reports, the deaths in the respective
districts are classed under the several diseases from which
they occurred,—you will discern at a glance, what the actual
mortality was during the last year.