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primary and secondary vaccination, and with respect
to the measures and precautions that should be
adopted in relation to Small Pox and other infectious
diseases; and that stamped and directed envelopes
with printed forms were distributed generally to the
medical practitioners, with the object of obtaining
from them such information as would enable the
Inspectors to carry out successfully the special duties
entrusted to them.
It is my duty to say that we have received much
valuable assistance from medical men, and more
especially from those who have to do specially with
the poor; that the officers of the Board of Guardians
have co-operated cordially with us, as in fact they
always have done; that landlords have, almost without
exception, and at no little cost to themselves,
readily carried out such work of disinfection as we
have required of them, and that consequently, though
much valuable work has been done by the Inspectors,
it has been done with much less impediment
and much more satisfactorily than might have
been expected, In some few cases the Inspectors
have had to apply to the Magistrates to compel the
due performance of the orders of the Vestry, but there
has been only one case in which any serious difficulty
has arisen. This was a case in which the Vestry,