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on the increase. This disease, so greatly dependent upon
climatic influences, resulted in death in no less than 34
cases, thus yielding a larger number by seven than
occurred from the same disease in 1864, and the largest of
any under the different classes of disease recorded in the
above table. It should not, however, be forgotten that
some few of these deaths were of entire strangers, coming
into the sub-district in order to avail themselves, temporally,
of the benefits to be derived from a pure suburban
atmosphere, which, in some portions of the parish, and
particularly in those the farthest removed from the water,
has the reputation of being most beneficial in prolonging
the existence of sufferers from phthisical disease.
Sanitation of the past year.—In addition to the usual
inspections that have been made of the slaughterhouses
and cowhouses, as well as of the bakehouses, in the
Sub-district, (the whole of which places were duly reported
upon to the Board and to the Local Committee
at the time such inspections took place) Table VI. in the
Appendix has been constructed to supply the usual summary
of sanitary work accomplished during the year, and to this
I must beg to refer the reader.
It should be observed, however, that all the cowhouses
and slaughterhouses in the parish received additional care
in their inspection during the past year, by reason of the
great prevalence of the cattle disease, and the danger of
its rapid extension through the neglect of proper sanitary
precautions. It affords me much pleasure to report that
the proprietors, generally, of these places, recognized, to
the fullest extent, the necessity of giving the strictest
attention to disinfection and cleanliness, and that the consequence
has been no case whatever of the Rinderpest,
even in its mildest form, has been known to occur within
the area of the Sub-district.
The great intercepting culvert has now been finished,
and with it the local contributory sewers and drains are
fast being made to join. When this last portion of the
great undertaking has been completed, one of the most
important of the sanitary requirements of the day will