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unpaved, and fowls kept. In very few instances were the
houses damp.
All these nuisances were speedily abated under the notices
served by the officers of the Board. As these were the worst
nuisances found on the premises occupied by the 125 cases
reported to me, and as defective connections with the drains
were not found in the other houses, the evidence in favour of
defective means of drainage being the cause is not very strong,
especially as in the majority of houses no sanitary defects were
found after careful examination.
TABLE I.
Showing the Population, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Density
of Population per acre for the Year 1888 and Pen Years
preceding.