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highest reading by day (85°.4) occurred in the week ended August
21st, the hottest week in the year (mean temperature, 66°.6,):
the lowest reading by night (23° 3) was registered in the weeks
ended February 27th, and December 11th. The Coldest
week was that ended December 4th, (mean temperature 30°9.) The
dryness of the atmosphere (i.e. the difference between the dew point
temperature and air temperature) was 5°.9 (average of 35 years
5.6). The rain fall was 27.3 inches—the average in 36 years being
24.1.
VACCINATION
I am again enabled through the courtesy of Mr. Shattock, the
indefatigable Vaccination Officer of this parish, to present a
complete return of the particulars of Infant Vaccination during
the year 1875. ( Vide Table X. Appendix.) The figures speak
for themselves, and prove how well the provisions of the law are
carried out, the results not being surpassed, I believe, in any other
district in the Metropolis.
SANITARY WORK.
Table 6 (A.ppendix) is a statement of the sanitary work carried
out by the inspectors in the year ended 25th March, 1876.
Table 6a shows, in respect of many of the details of sanitary
work, the proportion executed in thirteen periods of four weeks,
summarised for the purposes of my monthly reports. The
number of complaints received and entered in the complaint book
was 1557, of which a very large proportion resulted from inspections
by the sanitary inspectors.
DUST REMOVAL.
The communications with reference to the removal of dust,
etc., which in the previous year reached a total of nearly 6,000,
were 4775 last year, viz., 2037 in the north and 2738 in the south
district. The actual complaints of non-removal were 223, viz,,
118 in the north and 105 in the south, a great falling off from the
number in 1874-5 (1010). The orders issued to the contractors
requiring the removal of dust, as a result of inspections principally,
were 10,116. Altogether it must he confessed that, though
there is much still to be desired, the appointment of a special
officer to look after the execution of the dusting contracts has
been productive of very considerable advantages.
REMOVAL OF MANURE.
The Sanitary Act, 1866, gives the sanitary authority power to
frame regulations with respect to the removal of manure, etc.
from mews, stables, and other like places. Your Vestry have
exercised this power, but it cannot be said that the regulations
have produced much effect hitherto, complaints arising from
collections of manure being numerous. There are nearly