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In order to meet the estimated expenditure for Sower and
Drainage Work, Paving Lighting, Scavenging, Dusting, &c.,
for the half-year to Lady Day, 1888, a Precept has also been
issued as under:—
Date of Precept.
Description of Rate
St. Saviour.
Christch'ch.
Total.
9th Nov , 18S7
Sewer Rate ..
£
329
£
200
£
Genl. Purposes Rate
1914
1038
3479
In consequence of the statement contained in paragraph 8
of the Finance .Committee's Report, above quoted, that no
money was at present required for General Purposes and
Sewers expenses, the Board did not issue any Precept for the
first-half of the financial year.
Loan.
In order to complete the Paving Works, Bankside, the cost
of which is estimated at £2,250, the Board have arranged
with the Metropolitan Board of Works for a loan of £2,000, on
the security of the rates, at 34 per cent. interest; the principal
to be repaid in ten years by equal annual instalments of £200.
Medical
Officer's
Report.
On the reading of the Medical Officer's Report for the year
1887, herewith published, attention was directed to the high
rate of mortality (26.2 per 1000) therein mentioned; and, after
some discussion, it was referred to the Sanitary Committee with
instructions to enquire whether there were any inherent defects
in the sanitary arrangements of the district which might have
given rise to the increase in the number of deaths. The
Committee after careful consideration of the matter reported
that the exceptionally high rate of mortality in question was
not in any way due to local causes, but was the result of an
epidemic of zymotic diseases which prevailed more or less
throughout the metropolis. An abnormally large proportion
of deaths had resulted however from measles, a disorder which
would probably have been far less fatal it the cases could have
been isolated by being removed to an hospital; but that,
unfortunately, cases of measles and of diphtheria are not
allowed to be treated in the hospitals of the Asylums Board.