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and other sports may be pursued by the populace.
I think such games and sports should be encouraged
by all classes of the community, and clubs should
be formed amongst the various classes of
sedentary workers for the practice and encouragement
of these games. I think that in this way the
practice of soldiering by young men as volunteers,
has done some service. In the next place, I think
cheap refreshments should be sold in the parks. I
would not advise that beer and vane be sold, but
coffee, tea, chocolate, and fruit might be sold at
stalls, which would tend to draw all classes from
the close and confined public houses, which are as
destructive to health from the universally close and
impure condition of the atmosphere of their rooms,
as they are from the poisonous nature of the
compounds which are sold in them.
SPECIAL NUISANCES.
During the year several nuisances have occupied
my attention, and to the principal of these I now
refer.
Cow-Houses.
Of all the injurious practices that have grown
up with our large populations, there is none more
so than that of keeping cows for the purpose of
supplying milk as an article of diet. The milk of
the cow, when furnished by the healthy animal,