Scanned page images of the original book are available from
archive.org, search for sanitarystatisti00nigh. Original spelling and
grammar are generally retained, with a few exceptions noted below.
Original page numbers look like this: {35}. Footnotes are left near
their original locations. The transcriber produced the cover image
by editing the original, and hereby places it in the public domain.
Quotations extending through more than one line of text were printed
with a left-quotation mark at the head of each line. These have been
converted to modern quotation style. Ditto marks have been sometimes
removed, by replacement of the mark with appropriate text. The book
was printed with sidenotes, many which pointed to a specific table in
Appendix I. Those which were semantically headings, were converted to
headings.
Page 14. Comma was inserted after _personal_, in “the improved personal
physical, and moral habits”.
Page 20. Table A, which originally spread in small print over about
6 1/2 pages, was split into three distinct tables (A1–A3), on the
Colony Headings in Column 1. Sub-table A1 comprises Colonies Sierra
Leone, Western Australia, and Natal. Sub-table A2 covers Ceylon.
Sub-table A3 covers Canada. Then each of the three sub-tables was split
into two Parts after column 13, with the first column repeated in each
Part.
Page 26. Table A. a. was split into two parts after column 11,
repeating the first column in both parts.
Page 29. Table G. was split into two parts after column 11,
repeating the first column in both parts.
Page 30. Table H was split into three tables, (H1–H3), on the Colony
headings in column 1, the headings being the same as for Table A, see
above. Then each sub-table was split after column 7, repeating column 1
in both Parts.
Page 36. In Table H, there are five succussive rows headed by
_Milagria_ _Dehiwella_, _Attidiya vernacular school_, _Weligampittia_,
and _Dandogame_. In column five, the corresponding entries were 5,″,
- -, ″, and ″, respectively. In this edition, the spaced hyphens have
been converted to an em dash, and the three ditto marks are made “5”.
There is ample room for debate about this judgment, however.
Page 40. Tables I and K each had three tall RIGHT CURLY BRACKETs
intended to combine the information in two or three table cells. This
edition removes the brackets, and combines the information into one
cell per bracket, by the use of the word _or_. Other tables containing
tall brackets were handled in the same way. ¶ Furthermore, in Table
K, in the second column opposite _Rheumatismus acutus or Rheumatismus
chronicus_, there were three spaced hyphens; also in the last row,
2nd column. The rest of the data in columns 2–4 were either numbers
or em dashes. The meaning of the spaced hyphens is not clear to the
transcriber, and all such, even in other tables, have been converted to
em dashes.
Page 41. Table L was split into two parts after column 13, retaining
the first column in both parts. Same for Table P, page 44, and for
Table R, page 46, and for Table T, page 48.
Page 50. Table V, column 2, opposite _Chest diseases_, changed “20 7”
to “20·7”. Also split the table same as for L, P, R, and T. Table X,
page 52, was also split.
Page 59. In the table, _Phthsis_ was changed to _Phthisis_.
Page 65. There is in the printed book a centered heading in italics
“_Remarks by the Rev. Mr. Ondoatjee._” The sidenote adjacent to
the paragraph following is “MATURA.” There is no other mention of
“Ondoatjee” in the book. Without understanding the significance of
this reference to “Ondoatjee”, the transcriber has made both of these
headings of the same level (h3 in html code).
Page 66. In the sidenote, _MANATOWANING_ was changed to _MANITOWANING_.
Also, _ana verage_ was changed to _an average_.