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mongers, and hawkers; brain diseases among
porters, publicans, watermen, and bargemen; and
liver diseases are the especial attribute of the publican.
There is a significance in all this, for it
points to the peculiar habits of the different classes,
and indicates how much might be effected by prudence
and self-controul.
And now it is time that I should inform you
of what has been done in the course of the year
for the sanitary improvement of the City. Your
Inspectors have furnished me with returns of
the state of 5,294 houses; and 2,131 orders have
been issued for various sanitary improvements. 1
have also received from your Inspectors, detailed
accounts of the state of 4,718 rooms, each of which
has been carefully measured, and circumstantially
described in respect of its cleanliness, state of
repair, rental, and the number and condition of
its occupants. I have thus obtained a body of
information, which will, I trust, enable me to meet
some of the untoward circumstances to which I
have so frequently alluded. These rooms were
tenanted by 3,785 families, consisting of 3,413
males, 3,677 females, and 6,187 children: in all
13,277 persons. In 125 of these rooms I have
found 624 persons: namely, 187 men, 244 women,
and 193 children. Already I have described the
manner in which these people have been distributed.
In forty-seven cases there were two women and