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fall was about 25 inches, which is nearly an average. The
summer was very dry and the autumn wet. This extreme heat
accounts for the excessive infantile mortality from diarrhoea,
and the warm winter for the unusually small number of deaths
from affections of the lungs.
I append to this Report a list of streets inspected, of the
number of houses examined in each, and of nuisances discovered
therein; also a table of causes of and ages at death.
I remain, Gentleman,
Yours obediently,
JOHN W. TRIPE, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health.
Received and ordered to be printed and circulated.
J. J. Tanner,
June 3rd, 1869. Chairman.