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illness were attended among the poor of the City
by the Union Medical Officers, the average number
being 11,819; and of these 742 were cases of
fever, 672 of diarrhoea, and 236 of small-pox,—each
of which was the subject of especial inquiry as
regards the sanitary condition of the places where
they occurred.
The principal facts connected with the meteorology
of the year are recorded in Table X. of
the Appendix. They have been obtained, as usual,
from observations at Guildhall, under the superintendence
of Mr. Haywood; but they do not offer
any remarkable points for consideration.
The sanitary work of the year is also shown in
the last tables of the Appendix ; and I may state
that there have been 5,803 inspections of houses,
and 3,186 visits to the common lodging-houses of
the City ; and that these have resulted in the issuing
of 2,443 orders for sanitary improvement.
The markets and slaughter-houses have been
daily inspected, and the officers have condemned
210,505 lbs., or nearly 100 tons of meat, as unfit
for human food. It consisted of 870 sheep and
lambs, 90 calves, 303 pigs, 1,178 quarters of beef
2,988 joints of meat; besides 22 quarters and
haunches of venison, and 2,743 head of game and