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from the dust shortly after it is discharged from the carts. Such
an assertion is a mockery and a delusion, the larger pieces may be
removed, but there remains in the heap enough to cause very
unpleasant stenches, a fact of which any impartial observer mav
convince himself by walking over the different parts of the accumulation.
The recent deposit always smells the strongest.
In the other cases mentioned in the Agenda Paper, notices have
been severally served for imperfections of drainage.
Forty-two deaths were registered in July, of which two were
from small-pox. Although the mortality is a little above the
average, the number of cases of sickness have been fewer than
usual, and the Parish is at present healthy.
During the whole of last month the temperature was remarkably
low for the time of year, the thermometer generally ranging during
the day between 60° and 70° in the shade. On Monday the 23rd,
at 1 p.m. it stood at 57°. The highest temperature ever attained
at that hour was 71°. During the same month last year, the day
temperature at 1 p.m. rose to 90° on the 12th and 13th, and never
fell below 64°. The average day temperature of July, 1859, was
in round numbers 77°, that of July, 1860 was 67°, giving on the
whole month an average day temperature 10° higher last year than
in this present one.
Yours respectfully,
August, 1860. VY. MURDOCH.
FIFTY-SIXTH REPORT.
Gentlemen,
My attention was called by Mr. Bayley, the Relieving Officer,
to the house No. 22, King Street, which had been represented to
him as being overcrowded. The house is a large one, consisting
of a ground floor, and a first and second story. Each floor or flat
has evidently been arranged on the Scotch system, for the accommodation
of one family, and is divided into three rooms, one of
which is fitted up as a kitchen. Now, admitting that the average
number of persons usually composing a family is four or five, this
house might contain, without overcrowding, twelve, or at most,
fifteen inhabitants, but, with the exception of two rooms tenanted
by the person who has charge of the establishment, her husband
and children, every room is occupied by a family, and there are in