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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1884 — 5 15
???uned with returning warm weather, so that the experience of 1884-5 has been of an
???ptional character. Small Pox at the present time is as terribly mutilating, and as
I a disease among the unvaccinated as formerly, and one shudders at the idea which
some day be realised, viz: a repeal of the Vaccination Act. With regard to sanitary
???, it is a never ceasing trouble; nuisances arise, are attended to, and after a short
??? come up again. Over-crowding too is an increasing evil, but what can be done ?
turn people out to day to find them overcrowding somewhere else tomorrow; and can
be surprised ? How is a poor man with a large family able to pay for such accommo???
as we consider right ?
The water supply has been good during the year.
I am pleased to see that a Bill is before Parliament, viz: the Water Companies
???ulation of Power) Bill; one of the objects of the said Bill being to place limitations
he arbitrary powers possessed by the companies to stop the supply by cutting off the
were in the event of non-payment of rates.