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The section of the Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act,
1890, referred to above is as follows:—
Prohibiting Retention of Dead Bodies in Certain Cases.
"8.—No person without the sanction in writing of the
"Medical Officer of Health or of a registered medical
"practitioner, shall retain unburied elsewhere than in a
"public mortuary or in a room not used at the time as a
"dwelling place, sleeping place, or workroom, for more
"than forty-eight hours, the body of any person who has
"died of any infectious disease."
During the past year 15 deaths were registered asTolworthoccurring
in Tolworth, including one from the Union
Workhouse; of these nine were males and 6 females.
Only two children were under one year of age. There was
one death from diphtheria and one from measles. The
births were 51 comprising 25 boys and 26 girls. The
estimated population being 1085 this gives a death rate of
13.82, and the very large birth rate of 46.9. The district
has received considerable supervision at the hands of the
Sanitary Inspector, and much has been done to effect
improvements. The Ellerton, Worthington, Douglas,
Denham and Cotterill Roads are about to be made up and
put into good condition, this will be a much needed
sanitary improvement and conduce to the well-being of the
children who for some long time past must have had much
difficulty in going about dry shod in wet weather. It
would be an improvement also if the names of the roads
were put up as they are at present conspicuous by their
absence.
With an estimated population of 808 there were 11
deaths, four males and seveu females, giving a death rate
of 13.61, and 22 births, 10 boys and 12 girls, a birth rate
Southborough.