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Company, the object of which was to offer a model
of the way in which such establishments should be
conducted, in reference to the ventilation of the
work rooms and sleeping apartments, and also of
the hours of work required of the sempstresses
employed. I was invited by the Committee of this
establishment to confer with them, on plans to be
adopted for securing the ventilation, and other
sanitary arrangements of the house; and I believe
they have been carried out to the fullest extent, and
that the Association has worked most successfully
as far as the health of the inhabitants is concerned.
THE RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN
EPIDEMICS.
During the early part of the year, Russia and
the North of Germany were exposed to the ravages
of epidemic diseases, which excited alarm in this
country, lest they should invade our own shores, and
produce the same disastrous effects in this country,
which they had done in the places they were known
to have devastated. On the 27th of April I made
the following Report on these diseases.
RUSSIAN PLAGUE.
My attention has been drawn to the reports of
an epidemic prevailing in Russia and North Germany,
exhibiting a great mortality and pursuing the same
course as the Cholera in 1831, 1848, and 1854.