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to seek, to enable him to point out and control the influences
affecting unfavorably or favorably the public
health of his district.
Districts are so formed in this Parish, as to have
about the same density of population, viz., 300 to 400
per acre. Such are groups of streets on the North of the
Canal Basin, North Wharf Road district; another on
the South, the South Wharf Road district; a third on
the Hall Park estate; a fourth, newly built streets in
the Amberly Road district; again, Woodchester Street,
CireDcester Street, and Clarendon Street, each having a
population of above 1500 persons, are well defined;
other Streets form also well known groups of a
densely populated neighbourhood, all composed of a
certain class of houses let out in tenements. Squares
and mansions, with less density of population—a
totally different material for the study of Vital
Statistics—form a distinct Sanitary group, and are
equally well defined, so are also the mews and stables.
My Quarterly Reports contain more in detail the
results furnished by house to house inspection; not
only the Sanitary work done under the Inspector, but
the social condition of the people of these groups.
The Fever Ambulance.
There has been no epidemic during the past year,
since the small-pox died out, so that the Fever Ambulance
was only used 24 times, 18 being small-pox
cases, at the end of the epidemic, and 6 fever cases.
Most of them were sent to Stockwell, since the Hampstead
Hospital has been done away with.
It may be mentioned that the risk of contagion