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July 2—Ordinary Report and re Small-pox and Typhus Fever.
„ 9— Ordinary Report; re unsanitary condition of No. 11, Oley
Place; Regent's Canal; Fever, South Grove.
„ 23—Ordinary Report and re Summer Diarrhoea; dead body,
148, Charles Street; and special enquiry into case of
Cerebro-spinal Fever at 158, Jamaica Street.
Sept. 19—Ordinary Report and re Small-pox.
Oct. 3—Ordinary Report and re Small-pox; dead body at 51, Jubilee
Street.
„ 15—Ordinary Report and special enquiry into case of Small-pox
at 55, Copley Street.
„ 29—Ordinary Report; re Small-pox; Water Supply.
Nov. 26—Ordinary Report; re alleged cases of Small-pox and Typhus
in Nicholas Street; removal of Water Supply from
Nos. 29 and 65, Ben Jonson Road; and Report upon
the houses 100 and 102, Harford Street, and 1 to 9,
Upper York Place.
Dec. 19—Ordinary Report; re Water Supply and Small-pox.
1882.
Jan. 7—Ordinary Report and re Small-pox.
„ 21 —Ordinary Report; re large Infant Mortality; Typhoid Fever
Cases.
Feb. 4—Ordinary Report; re Small-pox; Typhus; and Water Supply.
„ 28—Ordinary Report and re aged couple living at No. 2, Ben
Jonson Road.
March 4—Ordinary Report and re Water Supply.
„ 25—Ordinary Report; re prevalence of Whooping Cough;
Typhoid Fever cases; Diphtheria; and Hyde's Factory,
No. 9, Yalford Street.
WATER SUPPLY.
The constant system of supply is now almost entirely completed
in this Hamlet. This is a most valuable aid to sanitary and social
improvement.
The water of the East London Company has compared very
favourably with that of other river waters, and has been generally
superior to them in quality. It has been satisfactorily proved by special
investigations, that the rates of mortality in populations supplied by
deep well water and by river water are almost identical, and when a
difference does occur it is in favour of the river waters—the statistics
apply to epidemics as well as to general mortality.
I regret to find that the plan of cutting off the water supply to
inhabited houses is still extensively adopted by the water companies in
cases where the non-resident landlord is nearly always the defaulter;
or, in some instances, the outgoing tenant—thus the wrong persons, the
immediate tenants are punished, and the public health seriously endangered
thereby. No doubt the Act of Parliament empowers the