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and families employed both on the wharves, and living on the
barges. This has been effectually done.
4. A fourth recommendation consists in the adoption of a
more regular and systematic plan of cleansing once or twice a
year. Cleansing once a year would probably be satisfactory, if
other precautions and suggestions were carried out, and the
cleansing operations were done in a more complete manner, viz.,
in accordance with the following suggestions;—It is quite practicable
to let off the water from the basin during the night, to fill
the barges with mud, which in a few hours will be ready for
loading ; the boats can be filled and made ready for floating off
in the afternoon, when the water could be let in to take them
away. With a proper and viligant arrangement beforehand,
this has been, and can at any future time be accomplished. The
practice of partly loading a few barges, and of throwing np the
remainder of the putrid mud on the wharves or bank is highly
objectionable, and ought not to be permitted in hot weather. It
not only calls for much additional labour, but the offensive mud
lying some days exposed to the sun on the banks until the owners
of each wharf can take it away, is a dangerous practice, and
altogether unnecessary. Between 30 and 40 barges are required
to be in readiness, moored over night in the middle of the Canal,
and a gang of men, will in a few hours load all the mud within
range of them. One perfect cleansing would make much easier,
and quicken all future operations.
From want of these preconcerted arrangements, the letting
off and refilling of the Canal, has on several former occasions
been inconvenient, ineffectual and dangerous. Such precautions
and arrangements for the work to be done speedily, will render
less necessary any process of deodorization, that would otherwise
be safer to adopt in the hot months of summer.
The following Publications and Papers in relation to Public
Health have been received during the last Quarter:—
Have you been Vaccinated, and what protection is it against Small Pox ? by
W. J. Collins, M l).
Reports of Medical Officers of Health:—St. Mary's Islington, by Ed. Ballard, M.D.,
Loud.; St. George's, Hanover Square, by J. Aldis, MD., M.A, &c.; St.
Marylebone, by J. Whitmore, M.D., &c.; of St. Giles's District, 1868, by George
Ross, M.D.,&c. ; of St. James', Westminster, by E. Lankester, MD., &c,; of
Whitechapel, by J. Liddle, Esq.
Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Returns of the Registrar-General for England, and
for Scotland. Poor Rates and Pauperism Returns.
The Workshop Regulation Acts, 1807, made as easy as possible for Masters, Workpeople
and Parents, by Robert Raker, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Factories.
The Factory Acts of 1853, 1856 and 1857, made easy.
Sixth Annual Report of the Coroner for Central Middlesex, by Edwin Lankester, M.D.
Report to the Health Committee of Liverpool on Abattoirs (Paris and Brussels), by
W. J. Newland, C.E.