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Registrar-General. These returns should be obtained
at any reasonable cost. It is a sine qua non that
Zymotic Disease, whether amongst the poor in hospitals
or dispensaries, or children in schools, and all
this class of cases in private practice, should be made
known at once to the Sanitary authority, and not, as
now, only after a death has occurred. Social interests
demands this information; and every one who has a
family, exposed as it is to the danger of these diseases
arising from the neglect of others, has a right to a
protective benefit, which sanitary laws are intended to
confer. This protection would be more perfect if we
had but a complete record of the seat and original
outbreak of all dangerous contagious diseases.
Sanitary Charts.
AVhat we much need are sanitary charts of each
of these districts, on the Ordnance scale, showing the
sewers, gulleys, open spaces, gardens and trees. Each
death should be marked by a colored spot or black dot.
In a more advanced sanitary administration, when we
get a register of disease (as we probably soon shall
have, of the Zymotic Disease, at least, as well as of
deaths), it will be useful to spot the Zymotics as they
occur, blue, red, green, indicating fever, scarlatina,
measles, typhoid, &c. Thus, at the end of the year,
and for years in succession, they may be inspected by
those interested in the sanitary state of the street,
town, or district. This would be useful to persons
going to buy or sell houses, and would tend to sharpen
up house-property men in sanitary matters.