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resulted in the consignment of more than half the children to their graves
within a few months of their separation, and generally as the demonstrable
effect of their separation, from their mothers. This advice has been in the
main followed, and few children have been admitted in the latter half of 1865,
without their mothers being kept to nurse them.
Such a curtailment of the operations of the Infants' Home appears to have
been absolutely necessary, if the institution is not to do far more harm than
good.
Section VIIIl.— On the Sanitary Work of 1865.
The following summary shows the great amount of work that has been
done by a single Inspector in the course of the year. The figures show
a general increase in the amount of work over that of former years, and
this increase is mostly attributable to the resolution of the Board, which permitted
proceedings being immediately taken against owners of property who
habitually kept their houses in a dirty condition. It is to be observed that
this resolution has not operated at all harshly, and that in pursuance of the large
discretion which the Board has given to its officers, only one person has been
summoned, and yet more work has been done.