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(3.) The Board of Guardians communicated with all the
medical men in the Parish early in the year, requesting them
to give the Board immediate information of the occurrence
of small pox in any locality; and the information thus
obtained has been since that time placed at the disposal of
the officers of the Vestry.
(4.) For a short time each inspector, in his own district,
looked after the houses in which small-pox was ascertained
to have occurred; but it was very soon felt to be injudicious
to compel the same man to visit small-pox cases habitually,
and to perform at the same time ordinary house-to-house
inspection, and hence, on the 14th February, 1871, Cooper
was removed from his ordinary work of inspection, and
directed to give his whole attention to the duties connected
with small-pox. These duties were to call periodically at all
houses in which it was known that small-pox was prevailing,
to advise with regard to vaccination, isolation of the sick
and disinfection, to take steps (in connection with the
Guardians) in reference to the removal of patients to hospital,
and in reference to the removal and burial of the dead,
to provide disinfectants, and to enforce, especially where the
small-pox had subsided, and if need were to superintend, the
cleansing, lime-whiting and disinfecting of premises, and
the disinfecting or the destruction of infected clothes and
bedding, and to see further that infected clothes and bedding
were not illegally transmitted from place to place, and tha.
houses empty after small-pox were not let before they had
been sufficiently disinfected.
(5.) On the 1st of March the Vestry, on the recommendation
of the Sewers and Sanitary Committee, gave their