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In compiling a sanatory report.

upon this Colony for the past year, uttention.

is called to three important objects.

1.

To deduce from such materials as

are attainublic, the most concise and the best

cvidence of the actual state of the health of the community.

2

To trace cut the

causes of

varinis caused

endemic diseases, those which are peculiar

to the

3.

locality.

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To point out the geneal, or political

and social measures which

may or ought to

be taken for the removal of such causes.

The defecti

in statistical

records of populations disease and death, _

defect ascribable to the peculiar character of

the people, and the limited and insular nature of the Colony,.

is a serious obstacke

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