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less than one.sixth of the whole. The number of houses in
which nuisances were found amongst the 4,227 inspected under
the Sanitary Act was 3,034, shewing the absolute necessity for
a periodical inspection of this class of houses. There were
16,804 rooms in the 4,227 houses, all of which were examined,
as well as the yards, water.closets, water.supply apparatus, and
the means of drainage, including the traps, the sinks, and rainwater
pipe connections. The number of families was 5,921,
and of inmates, 26,067, being at the rate of 1*4 families and
nearly 6.2 persons to each house. The number of cases of
zymotic disease reported to me from these houses during the
year was as follows, viz., 50 of small pox, 305 of scarlet fever,
46 of diphtheria, 96 of typhoid fever, and 4 of other kinds of
fever, including 2 of typhus, one of which occurred in the
person of an employee of the Fever Hospital, and the other was
apparently an imported case, as the house was clean, free from
smell, well drained, not overcrowded, and the sick person was
not in want of ordinary necessaries. The total number of cases
of zymotic disease, excluding measles, whooping cough and
diarrhoea, brought to my notice during the year, was 79 of
small pox, 459 of scarlet fever, 76 of diphtheria, 124 of typhoid
fever, and 7 of other fevers. These figures include those who
died as well as those who recovered.