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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour, once more to place before you, a summary
of the sanitary measures adopted by this Board and its Officers,
during the past year, and the statistics of disease and death
for the same period, by which the health of the population is
usually tested, and I beg to offer a few customary observations
by way of elucidation of the principal facts, which will enable
you more easily to understand the tables which are appended.
The registered number of deaths which occurred in Christ
Church was 340, and in St. Saviour's 329, making a total of 669
deaths. The total number of births was 1,086, comprised in the
following details:—
Christ Church Males 285
Females 238
523
St. Saviour' Males 296
Females 267
563
1,086
The apparent higher mortality in Christ Church, is caused by
the workhouse being situated there, which is filled with aged and
infirm men, of the total number who died there, namely 71, 51
were between 60 and 80 years of age, and 12 between 80 and 90.
The following is a statement of all the deaths which occurred
from various causes during the year.