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Ammonia, a valuable residual product of gas manufacture,
was present in the gas more or less frequently throughout the
year, but only in slight quantities. On no occasion was the limit
fixed by the Acts of Parliaments—viz., four grains in 100 feet
of gas—exceeded.
The Chief Gas Examiner being independent of the Company,
it is satisfactory to note that his reports on the daily testing of
the gas are so favourable.
Conclusion.—It only remains for me, in bringing this
Report to an end, to offer my thanks to all who have contributed
by their assistance to whatever success may have attended the
work of my department during the past year.
I have had occasion in previous reports to refer to the cooperation
of the Board of Guardians. It would be impossible to
over-value the services rendered by them in past years, through
their officers, in measures for preventing the spread of dangerous
infectious diseases—viz., by securing the speedy removal
of the sick.
The sub-district Registrars, Messrs. Barnes and Hume, and
the Vaccination Officer, Mr. Shattock, have, as usual, readily
complied with my applications for information on subjects
connected with their several departments.
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