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101
Inspectors of Nuisances, though of much immediate
value to us in determining our proceedings in respect
of individual cases or groups of cases, is
necessarily not sufficiently accurate to make it
worth while to tabulate it. Certain facts however
occasionally come to our knowledge which it seems
desirable to record. The following are a few of
such facts which have been noted by us during
the year embraced in my report.
A well known anti-vaccinator in the parish,
who with his wife had been vaccinated in early
childhood, had refused to have any of his family
vaccinated. Two of his daughters contracted the
disease early in 1881, and were removed to Hospital.
One died there. After the occurrence of the
second case he wisely re-considered his position,
had his remaining children (three or four in number)
at once vaccinated, and was also himself revaccinated.
No other cases of small pox occurred
in his house.
Early in the year a young man who had never
been vaccinated took small pox and was removed
to the Hospital where he died. The undertaker's
man, who was concerned in removing him, caught