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benefit of the community. The following table which has been prepared
from information obtained through my colleagues, from the several inspectors
acting under the authority of the Board, will I trust, exhibit
with sufficient clearness the points I have alluded to.

It should be observed that the notices served on owners, occupiers,
and others by the Inspectors, in compliance with the orders of the
Board, were chiefly for the construction, cleansing, and trapping of
drains, the laying on of water, the conversion of open cesspools into
water closets, the construction of dust bins, the removal of swine, and
the general abatement of nuisances injurious to health or interfering
with the public convenience. Besides the above, several works of great
and lasting utility have been begun in various parts of the district since
the commencement of the quarter, some of which are evidently designed
to remove many of the evils affecting the health of the public that have
been reviewed in this report.
Whilst your Inspectors have been active in their respective sub-districts
in attending to the suggestions of the Medical Staff, and in the
general superintendence of work?, the Officers of Health have availed
themselves of every opportunity to discuss and mature plans for future
action, and to engage themselves in making important investigations
and statistical enquiries, with a view to establish on as scientific a basis
as possible, their practice of preventive medicine—a practice which, to
realize all the advantages to be obtained from it, they feel they must