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vivify any contagious germs which may bo introduced
amongst such a class.
The medical treatment has been successful, for individual
cases have been repeatedly cured, only, however, to relapse
and swell the number of these affected with the disease by
communicating it to others; therefore it is clear that some
latent causes must still exist.
The causes I believe to be, the reception from workhouses
of infected children; the want of sufficient water supply;
the insufficient cubic contents of the dormitories; the want
of ventilation of The dormitories; and the insufficient drainage.
Those latter defects I have already brought under your
notice, since which nothing has been done to remedy them.
Many complaints were made during the latter part of the
year of the offensive odour from the land attached to the
North Surrey District School, which may be attributed (1st)
to the fact th it the sewage is not now, us formerly, passed
through Peat charcoal to deodorize it; and (2nd) that the
year 1872 was a very wet one, and the irrigation of the land
by sewage has been unsuccessful, in consequence of the
incapacity of the soil to absorb the quantity of liquid thrown
upon it.
The North Surrey District School was for many years the
healthiest of of its class in the world, and so fur as I am able
to judge there are no physical reasons why it should not
recover its former prestige.
Nine deaths have taken place in the School during the
year.
Water Supply (Dr. Frankland).
"The water delivered by the Kent Company from deep
wells in the chalk has again been distinguished throughout
the year for its comparative freedom from organic matter.
"Taking the proportion of organic elements in a given
volume of the Kent Company's water as unit, the following
are the maximum, minimum, and average quantities present
in each of the other metropolitan waters during the past
year.