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amongst the poor are employed away from home in laundries, and
market gardens, and leave their babies to the care of young
children or strangers. The consequence is that they are badly fed
and cared for.
The Registrar General gives, in his report for the quarter
ending September, the proportion of deaths of children under
one year to 1,000 births as 255, and for the three preceding
quarters an average of 179 to 1,000 births.
Sixty-six people died over 65 years of age which is at a
rate of 3.6 per 1,000.
The births registered were 458, which, with a population of
18,000, gives a birth-rate of 25.4 per 1,000.
Your obedient Servant,
JAMES ADAMS.