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The Mean Temperature of the air throughout the year was:
First Quarter
365
Second Quarter
52-5
Third Quarter
61-2
Fourth Q aarter
44-6
water supply.
According to the report of Dr. Frankland, the water supply to
London has been entirely unprecedented throughout the whole
number of years, during which -his systematic examination has
been made.
He further remarks that this marked improvement is entirely
due to the greater care and superior method of working, which has
been adopted by the several Water Companies, to whom the water
supply of the Metropolis is entrusted.
While on the subject of water supply, I would mention what
I have already called the attention of your Sanitary Committee to,
and through them to your Vestry, namely, the Act at present
before the House of Commons to restrain the Water Companies
from cutting off the water supply from houses where the landlord
is liable for the rate and not the tenant. Several instances have
occurred in the parish during the last year, and in one case 27
families were left without any water supply, the water rates collector
sending me a letter to that effect. I do not consider that it
is the duty of the Sanitary Authority to become the rate collector
for the water companies.
work done by sanitary inspectors.
The accompanying table marked " A," shows the work done
by the Sanitary Inspectors in their respective districts, and the
distribution of infectious diseases in each district. From this it
will appear that the larger number of infectious cases which were
reported occurred in the northern district. As, however, numerous
cases occur, no notice of which reaches your Sanitary Officers, this
is no criterion, most of the cases never come to my knowledge
until after death, when it is generally found that several other
cases of the same disease (chiefly during the past year scarlet fever
and measles) may be traced. In one instance, first brought to
notice through the death of a child, six other children in the same
house were found infected, and the disease was rapidly spreading