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o'clock; for the Out-Wards, Mr. W. P. Jorden, 14, Lower
Belgrave Street, Eaton Square, on Mondays, between
9 and 1 o'clock.
It must be remembered, that unless the arms of those
vaccinated are afterwards properly examined, there can
be no satisfactory assurance of protection against the dangers
of small-pox. The law accordingly requires, that
all persons vaccinated by the public vaccinators, shall attend
for the purpose of this examination on the day week
succeeding.
Parents and guardians of all children born since the
first of August, 1853, are liable to a fine if they neglect
to have such children duly vaccinated.
By order of the Governors and Directors of the Poor,
T. B. CHAPPELL,
Dated the 10th day of January, 1860. Clerk.
IV. In the next place there follow the details of
cases brought before the local authority during the quarter.
Brook Street, No.—. This house was noticed in the
report for Midsummer 1858, p. 6. The children were
affected with choleraic symptoms in 1856, and again in
1858, when the water was suspected to be poisoned, and
sent to be analyzed. Now, in February 1860, diphtherite
appeared, as has been related in a former page. This
house is overlapped at the back by the next house,
so that there are no windows to the staircase and
no means of ventilating the water closets. The air
supply to the whole house was very deficient. The
water-closets of the adjoining house had, for a fortnight
previous to the outbreak of illness, leaked into this
house, creating an intolerable effluvium. The four water-