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Reference :-
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to the faittiful prosecution of the first inquiry. Until the establishment of the Civil Hospital, which will assist in affording serpentous exactness to the future records of sickerups in the various Government Departments, the syetim pursued in the treatment of the sick, amenget: lu. Police-
the.
Force,
was not only inefficient. and.. unsatisfactory, but it was one. by which it was impossible to impart, faithfulness to the records of disease.
All
averages
in the Police Force.
with be referred to fixed numbers; dismissals and changes in the force however.
the
year
the
will
bring
during
into the computation of
averages nearly tivice the musuber of individuals that compose the fixed standard-
to which the
averages are referred.
Popular ideas are
very apt to
attribute to some apparent physical cause,
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the epidemics which prevail; but those who
with extempore explanations of
are. lo
to ready the onest recondite of all morbific phaenomene are little aware of the diversity the complexity
into the
and subtlety of the subject which they handle with so much facility. An insight
-varying influences of the atmosphere, the relation of such influences to vital tifeues, and into the thousand changes familiar atmospherical phaenomenon may,
which
one
at a moment, work the composition and. constituents of the surrounding air, would demonstrate the presumption, in endeavouring
to trace causes little knowledge.
with so little
The practical mischief of such rachness is every day apparent
In pointing out the remedies for
general evils, it is often discouraging to feel.
that we are
frequently
called
Eled upon to suggest
measures which cannot be taken.