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Sanitary Report for the Year 1866.
TO THE
Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
The two most important matters which
have to be discussed in the Medical Report for 1866,
are, the Cholera outbreak and the Sanitary Act. As
the Sanitary Committee has already presented its
report on the manner in which it has carried out the
Orders in Council, and the measures necessary for suppressing
the disease, and as I have also, in my report
on the epidemic, reviewed its progress and mortality,
I need now say but little on this subject. The provisions,
however, of the Sanitary Act, are so important,
and have thrown so great an amount of additional
labour on me and the other members of the sanitary
staff, that I feel called upon to lay before you, a brief
epitome of the Act, so far as concerns my department
Prior to the Cholera outbreak, there was but one