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purpose, with a view to the safety and comfort
of the patient. As soon as the carriage was
completed, arrangements were made for placing
it gratuitously at the disposal of the inhabitants,
and every effort was employed to render these
arrangements as public as possible. Notice boards,
on which it was announced that application could
be made at any time to the Hall-keeper, at
the Vestry Hall, for the use of the carriage,
were fixed in the most prominent situations, and
hand-bills containing the same information were
widely distributed. Notwithstanding these measures,
there is reason to believe that the object
they were intended to accomplish,— the removing
of infected persons from densely populated
districts without delay, was unattained. As it
was evident that this failure no longer arose
from the difficulty of obtaining fit conveyance,
but rather from the uncertainty and expense
attendant on the reception of patients into the
hospital, no further steps could be taken.
Cow-houses and Slaughter-houses.
On the 15th of October, I submitted to the
Sanitary Committee a list of persons who had
given notice of their intention to apply for
Licences to use their premises either as Cowhouses
or Slaughter-houses, and presented a
report on these premises, from which it appeared