View report page

14
of 27.2. Five deaths were of children under one year of
age. There was one death from measles and one from
scarlatina. All the private roads are very bad. The
Surveyor has instructions to prepare plans and estimates,
and the Council will, I understand, then take into consideration
what shall be done.
Hook
In this hamlet there were six deaths, five males and
one female. With an estimated population of 468 this
gives a death rate of 12.95. The births were nine, boys
four, girls five, and a birth rate of 19.4. There were no
deaths from any of the Zymotic diseases.
General Sanitary
Work.
During the first two months of the year the weather
was fine and dry, March was somewhat rainy and was
followed by a hot dry summer, but in the last week of
August rain commenced and the autumn and winter
months have been exceptionally wet, with a temperature
above the average. These weather conditions do not seem
to have had any very appreciable effect on the public
health, unless it be the unusual amount of diarrhoea which
prevailed in October and November was due to the consequent
abnormal atmospheric humidity, though certainly
this complaint was largely associated with epidemic and
catarrhal influenza, which was very general about that
time.
During April the Council elected as Sanitary Inspector
from a large number of applicants, Mr. Nesfield, who
brought excellent credentials from Idle in Yorkshire, where
he held the post of Sanitary Inspector and Water Works
manager.
He commenced duty at the end of the month and I
take this opportunity to gladly recognise the energy, tact
and ability which he has shown in the varied and multitudinous
duties he has had to perform. His report, which