4. Have any steps been taken during the year, looking toward an improvement of your water supply? If so, please state what was done. 5. Has your sewerage system been extended or a new one introduced? If so, give the number of miles of new sewers that have been or will be constructed under present contracts. 6. How many houses were newly connected with the public sewers during the year? 7. What are the defects of your sewerage system? 8. Have epidemic diseases of any kind prevailed in your town during the past year? If so, state their character, and, if possible, the number of cases and deaths from each of such diseases. Also, please state what was done by your board to prevent the spread of such diseases. 9. What has your board done to regulate the disposal of night-soil, i. e. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. a. How many privy-vaults were emptied or disinfected during the year? b. Does your board require new vaults to be made water-tight? C. How many vaults, boxes or drawers, constructed for the use of dry earth, were introduced? How many and of what character were the nuisances abated by your board during the year? Were any arrests made at the instigation of the board? If so, give the number, the specified causes therefor and the results of trials in each case. Was any impure or unwholesome food, or any animals, fish, fowls, etc., intended for food, condemned by the board during the year? If so, state the character and amount of food condemned. Has your board inspected the dairies and milk supply of your city (or village)? Has your board inspected the sanitary condition of all schools and school buildings within the limits of the corporation, as required by section 2135 of the Revised Statutes? About how many vaccinations and re-vaccinations were made in your town during the year? Is there within you corporate limits, any special cause of ill health to a large number of people and if so, what is its character and what has your board done to remove it? Any further information you have to offer in regard to sanitary improvements your board has been instrumental in introducing into your town, will be gladly received. Answers were received from 149 boards of health, which have been arranged in alphabetical order, according to the names of towns. They are as follows: 5. We have a complete system of sewerage from one end of the corporation to the other; about fifty rods have been put in the past year. 7. No particular defects; our sewerage extends on both sides of High street of 10-inch sewer-pipe to the corporation line, a distance of about two miles, with local sewers from the cross streets and alleys. 8. None until the past two weeks; character, diphtheria; and our board of health is putting our village in the best sanitary condition possible. 9. Have not acted on that since we organized the 1st of October. 14. Yes; the school building is well kept and disinfected. 15. There were some, but have not the number. 16. The want of a system of sewerage. BELLE CENTRE. 8. J. POLLOCK, M. D., H. O. 4. None. We have pure limestone water; iron and wooden pumps are used. 5. No; our sewers are tile, under ground. 8. None. There have been a few isolated cases of scarlet-fever; do deaths. I placed a notice of the disease on the house, and notified the superintendent of the schools. 9. Our board visited all the houses and I notified those whose privies were in bad condition; thirty privies have been cleaned and removed. extension has been proposed, but not yet completed. The drainage within the corporation is reasonably good-at least the public does not suffer any for want of it, as the general health of our locality is usually good. 8. Not to any extent. We had but 4 cases of diphtheria during the past 8 months, two fatal. None others existed. Against the spread of diphtheria, the houses wherein the disease existed were labeled with cards, the character of disease printed in large type, and families quarantined. 9. All night-soil was ordered removed beyond corporation limits, and air slaked lime used as desiccant and disinfectant. (a). A large number; don't know how many. (b). Yes. 4. Our water supply here is principally from wells; we allow no privy-vaults within fifty feet of wells, except well cemented; we also prohibit all slops and garbage thrown within fifty feet of well. 5. We have built about two miles this year; our sewers are in a good condition at present; we could use more water if we had it. 6. About twenty-five. 7. Our sewarge is very good, but we need more water to flush; instead of flushing we have traps put in at every man-hole and in every cellar drain. 8. We have not had an epidemic of any kind in the last year; we had a few cases of diphtheria and scarlet-fever, but no deaths; we have all ca es reported; as soon as discovered a card is put on the house with name of disease; superintendent is notified not to let any child attend school out of that family until notified. 9. We have a man appointed for that; he removes it, in tight barrels, outside of city limits. (a) Three hundred. (b) Yes, within fifty feet of well. (c) None. 10. The exact number I could not say; we have hog-pens cleaned and privies; ice ponds cleaned before filled: the ice taken from the river below town is used only for cooling, and not allowed for drinking-water; we have printed on each wagon what kind of ice each one delivers. 11. Two arrests were made; party fined $5.00 for removing privy contents without permit; another for selling fish on the square after ordered off; fined $6.00. 13. We have the milk inspected every month; found it in good condition. 14. Yes. 15. Five hundred. 16. None. 15. About fifty. 16. None. |