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admitted;—On January 1st, the mother was confined
in the back room, and the baby had "a rash"
out on it, when a week old. On January 10th, the
daughter was prescribed for as suffering from
" German measles," and on February 16th, she
was pronounced to be suffering from Typhoid. Not
till February 28th was the Sanitary authority
informed of the existence of this most important
case of infectious disease, and them it was found
that ten other cases had occurred in apparent
connection therewith. No chemical or microscopical
examination suffices at present to differentiate milk
which has been made poisonous by such pollution.
During the year 1879, 64 bodies were removed
into the Mortuary. Of these bodies 8 were cases
in which disinfection was required, and where
the removal of the corpse was probably the means
of preventing the spread of infectious disease.
In 27 cases bodies were removed from the
presence of families mostly living in a single
room, and where, but for the public Mortuary,
the living would have lived and slept in presence of
a decomposing corpse, and, possibly, a post mortem
examination would have been made before the
interment could take place. In 3 cases the bodies
have been those of casual strangers—homeless, or