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deaths, one by drowning, and the other by being run over
by a railway locomotive.
Two deaths appear on the Register as "Uncertified," and
were presumedly cases in which no medical advice had
been sought or obtained. The evil arising from the permission
to local registrars to record the causes of death
without either medical certificates or inquests, has been
strongly remarked upon in this and in former Reports by
all the Health Officers, and to these remarks the reader
is referred.
SANITATION.
The summary of sanitary proceedings contained in the
Table annexed, indicates an amount of accomplished work
that cannot fail to prove highly beneficial to the neighbourhood.
In the matter of drainage, it will be seen that
3,800 feet of new sewerage were constructed during the
year. A large number of inspections were also made, and
numerous nuisances'removed or abated, all of which were
accomplished with but one appeal to the magistrates.
Apart from what appears in the Table, a good deal was
accomplished by the exertions of the able and active
Surveyor, in the way of cleansings, repairs, &c., in
respect to which no particular record was, at the time,
deemed necessary, and consequently no detailed reference
has here been made to them.
The annual licences to premises used for slaughtering
purposes, and for cow sheds, were obtained at the
usual period, and I am pleased to record the fact, that no
complaints were made of the condition of these places upon
the inspections of the Surveyor and myself. The slaughter-houses
were all found to possess the sanitary requisites
insisted on in the published regulations of the Board, and
the cow-houses were in like manner certified to as being
in a satisfactory condition.
Water Supply.—Little requires to be said upon this
subject pending the trial (if ever such trial is made) of
the new regulations providing for a continuous supply of
potable water, but there still remains the necessity for