View report page

32
Sickness and Mortality of the Month.
The absolute number of deaths registered during the month of
September was thirty-seven—exactly the average number—of these,
twenty-four, or two-thirds were of children under 3 years of age,
a state of things to which I have often before called the attention
of this Vestry.
Scarlatina and measles have been both prevalent, two deaths
from the former and one from the latter having been registered. The
mostprevalent disease, however, has been diarrhoea, which has carried
off seven persons, six children under 2 years, and a woman
aged 79.
The parish has been entirely free from small pox, nor has there
been a solitary case of epidemic cholera. The number of cases of
sickness has certainly during the month been considerably under
the general average at this season of the year.
At this present moment I consider the parish healthy. During
the last three months the number of deaths have been one hundred
and thirty-two, viz, sixty-five males and sixty-seven females, and the
number of births one hundred and ninety-nine, namely, ninety-four
males and one hundred and four females, sixty-seven more births
than deaths.
Nuisances.—Nuisances from full cesspools and imperfect drainage
having been complained of at 47, Paradise Street, 13, Love Lane,
and No. 2, Frederick Place, Cobourg Lane, these places were
respectively visited by me and notices served.
Yours obediently,
October 7th, 1856. W. MURDOCH.
SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT AS TO SLAUGHTER-HOUSES
IN THE PARISH.
On the 4th September, 1856, I visited Record's slaughter-house,
in Lower Queen Street, a sort of out-house at the back of his dwelling.
A space of above ten feet existing between them; drainage in
good order and trapped; good implements, abundant water supply,
place lofty, well ventilated, without smell and clean, neighbourhood
populous but not crowded, the only thing wanting is the receptacle
for refuse, which Mr. R. is about constructing. Recommended.
On the 9th I went to Brackenbury's slaughter-house, in SevenStep
Alley; it was undergoing repair; I in consequence revisited
it on the 26th; no dwelling house near it, drainage in good order
and trapped, implements and water supply good, an excellent receptacle
in brick with a cover. Recommended.
On the same day I inspected Poulton's slaughter-house in Paradise
Street. It is a sort of stone floored-wash-house, at the back of
his dwelling under the same roof and forming part of it, consequently