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condition of a district; because the streets and sewers are not
sufficiently washed to carry away infectious and decomposing matters.
As the expression "inches of rain" may not be very clear, I may
say. that, admitting 1/100 in. of rain to amount to 1 ton per acre, the streets
and sewers of the Parish were washed by 266,000 tons less rain-water
than usually occurs in the course of a year.
Sanitary Improvements. The important drainage works
effected during the year are enumerated in the appended Surveyor's
Report. The no less important house-cleansings, supplies of carbolic
acid, at the Vestry expense, and disinfections of rooms, &c., where
zymotic disease has prevailed, of which we have received notice, have
been very numerous; and although they are not enumerated, the
Vestry will, I am sure, believe me when I say that they have been
satisfactorily carried out.
I have the honor to remain,.
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
J. W. GRIFFITH, M.D.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
November, 1871.