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might be given to the police constable on the beat.
By a slight modification of the plan adopted for
the public urinal of the Canal Company, similar
accommodation could easily be provided for
females—as that enjoyed by males only, as may
be seen by a reference to an annexed wood cut.
Although a large number of women are daily
employed on the Wharves, and live in barges on
the Canal Basin, yet it is only on the Wharves of
Messrs. Mead & Co. that this wholesome regulation
has been properly carried out by the owners and
occupiers.
Systematic Sanitary Inspection, House-to-House
Visitations.
It will be remembered that in May, 1866, the
Sanitary Committee, fearing the advent of cholera,
appointed an additional Sanitary Inspector, whose
duty was to assist the carrying out of house-to-house
visitations in this Parish. The functions of this
officer, have become a most useful part of parochial
sanitary organization. I refer with great
satisfaction to the work done last year by Mr. F. J.
Davenport. We have thus brought under observation
all important facts, in the more densely populated
districts, streets and houses where more than
one family reside in the same house. The records
in Street sheets are under the following heads:—
a. Name of street; b. No. of house; c. No. of