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filter beds are being constructed at Lea Bridge, and the old ones are
being re-constructed. A pair of powerful engines will shortly be in
operation, to give a better supply to the higher parts of their District.
The Tables.
These are compiled from the Returns supplied by the District
Registrars, and although this entails much trouble and occupies much
time, I consider they are most valuable as guides to the study of vital
statistics, and a general indication of the progress made in the promotion
of the Public Health—this progress is indisputable. To satisfactorily
prove this we have only to contemplate what would have been the
probable relative mortality of this metropolis, with its enormously
increased population and density thereof, had it not been for the
sanitary measures, however incomplete, adopted within the present
generation.
Summary of my Reports to the Sanitary Committee.
April 28th.—Ordinary Report and re Typhoid Fever; overcrowding at
2, Lydia Street; dead body, 125, Coutt's Road.
May12th.—Ordinary Report re Whooping Cough, Typhoid, and Scarlet
Fever.
June 9th.—Ordinary Report, and re Victoria Place, Globe Road; 151
to 167, Sydney Street; 177 and 179, Whitechapel Road,
under Artizans and Labours' Dwellings Act, 1868.
June 23rd.—Ordinary Report, and re Water as a Medium by which
Typhoid poison is conveyed.
July 14th.—Special Report, and re Water on Mr. Sullivan's premises,
Commercial Road; Cow Barn in Sydney Street.
July 28th.—Ordinary and Gut Cleaning in Yalford Street.
August nth.—Ordinary Report and re Nuisance in Medway Road at
Fibre Manufactory; and water from well at 53, White
Horse Lane.
September 22nd.—Ordinary Report and re Reported case of Asiatic
Cholera; re Case reported by Charity Organisation
Society.