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came under my notice, in consequence of an outbreak of Typhus
Fever therein. The disease was imported from a neighbouring
district, and for a time threatened seriously the health of the
inhabitants of the locality. The measures, however, taken for stamping
out the infection were entirely successful, early information of
each case having been received, and the victims moved to Hospital
without delay.
In January, the low lying parts of your district were subjected
to an inundation by the River. Occurring as it did during the
depth of winter, the inhabitants of these parts suffered serious loss
and inconveinence, as well as injury to health. The occurrence was
the occasion of a letter from your Board to the Metropolitan Board
of Works, asking that body to take steps under the Act of 1879.
Your Board have had the watermen's stairs and other public places
raised, and the Metropolitan Board of Works have taken steps to
prevent a recurrence of a similar catastrophe.
Smallpox Hospital accommodation came under your notice on
several occasions ; in February a letter relating to this matter was
received from the Local Government Board, in which your powers
under 37 sec. of the Sanitary Act, 1866 were pointed out. Your
Board, however, replied stating difficulties in the provision of separate
accommodation for such cases, and drawing the attention of
the Board to the popular demonstration against the Smallpox Hospital