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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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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.