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effect upon the general health, caused by continually
breathing such an atmosphere, will be sufficiently
obvious, independent of the frequent production of
some specific and fatal disease.
The discovery ot an effective plan of sewer ventilation,
whereby pollution of the atmosphere would be prevented,
would be one of the most valuable additions to
sanitary science, and meet with the ready approval of
the Metropolitan Board.
Summary of my Reports to Health
Committee.
1873. April 21.—Ordinary Report of Registrar's
returns, state of public health, and sanitary work done—
Report re Spill's manufactory.
May 13.—Ordinary report as above.—Report Spill's
Manufactory.—Report East London Water.
June 9.—Ordinary report.—Report re 174, Globe
Road, and recommendations.
Jane 23.—Ordinary report.
July 14.—Ordinary report.—Special report re
Diarrhoea—recommendations.—submitted scries of instructions
to be printed for public guidance.—Report
East London Water.
Sept 29..—Ordinary report—Reports re Diarrhoea and
Fever—Report re Cow and Slaughter houses with
recommendations.—Report re Spill's Manufactory.
October 27.—Ordinary report.—Report re Enteric
Fever.
December 1.—Ordinary report.—Special report re
Typhoid Fever and its prevalence in the Metropolis—
letter re Typhus from Board of Guardians.-—Correspondence
with Foor Law Medical Offieers re Fever in the