Acari, or sugar-mites, 197.

INDEX.

Accommodation-for the sick, 150, 266 seq.-required in houses, 240.
Accounts, audit of, 8.

Acland, Dr., on increasing population, 84.

Acquisition of land, 10.

Act-Alkali, transfer of powers under, 19-Diseases Prevention, 6-
Nuisances Removal, 15-Public Health (Ireland), 1-provisions
of, 3-Sanitary, 1866, 1.

Acts [see Statutes]-repeal of local, 10—Contagious Diseases, 187.
Adie's barometer, 291.

After-lifetime, 71, 78.

Age, influence of, on birth-rate, 88-death-rate, 98.

Ague absent from bog districts, 174.

Air, atmospheric, composition of, 244-impurities of, 245.

Air and ventilation, 244 seq.

Air space required, 247.

Alcoholism, 185.

Alkali Act, transfer of powers under, 19.

Ammonia in water, 231.

Andrews, Dr., on ozone, 245.

Anemometer, 292.

Ansell, Mr., tables of duration of sickness, 82.

Ansell, Mr., jun., on upper-class vital statistics, 113.

Authorities, Sanitary, 3-defaulting, 13-legal position of, etc., 19—
transfer of powers to, 5-transfer of property to, 6.

Averages, 73, 76-average of, 76.

Balfour, Dr., on Contagious Diseases Acts, 188.

Ballard, Dr. E., on enteric fever from milk, 159-on small-pox, 299-
on measles, 301-on whooping-cough, 302—on scarlatina, 304.

Births-statistics of, 83 seq.-influence of sex on, 86-influence of age
on, 88-influence of place on, 89-influence of periods on, 89-in.
fluence of seasons on, 90-influence of hours on, 91-influence of
professions on, 91-influence of morality on, 92-influence of political
institutions on, 93.

Board, Joint Sanitary, 9.

Board, Local Government [see Local Government Board].

Bogs, antiseptic action of, 174.

Bon-bons, 197.

Borrowing powers, 11.

Bossi on physical configuration of country, 106.

Bowditch, Dr., on phthisis and dampness of soil, 284.

Bread, 199.

British Islands, climate of, 280.

Buchanan, Dr., on soil and phthisis, 177, 284-on improvement from
sanitation, 117.

Budd, Dr. W., on communicability of enteric fever, 161.

Butter, 203.

Buys Ballot-law of direction of wind, 276.

Buzareignes, Giron de, on excess of male births, 87.

Carbonic dioxide in air, 246.

Carlisle life-table, 99.

Carlisle, outbreak of fever at, 152.

Carpenter, Dr., on scarlatina and slaughter-houses, 169.

Casper on still-births, 94-on duration of life, 114.

Chateauneuf, B. de, on influence of place on birth-rate, 89.

Chaussier, M., on weight, 132.

Chauveau's experiments on contagion, 261.

Cheese, 207.

Children, mortality of, 100.

"Chloralum," 262.

Chlorine in water, 234.

Chocolate, 206.

Cholera and sub-soil water, 284.

Cholera, 162—a disease of summer and autumn, 295-epidemics of, 296.

Chowne's ventilator, 251.

Church's test for sewage contamination of water, 214.

City life, value of, 103.

Clark's, Dr., method of softening water, 215.

Clark's test for hardness of water, 228.
Cleanliness as influencing zymotics, 147.

Cleansing of streets, ashpits, etc., 13.

Climate, 277-defined, 277—of United Kingdom, 280.
Climatology, 101.

Clouds and cloud-forms, 293.

Cocoa, 206.

Coffee, 205.

Compensation to officers, 18.

Condy's Fluid," 263.

Configuration of country, influence of, on life, 106.

Configuration of surface and climate, 281.

Constitutional diseases, 176 seq.

Construction of houses, 238.

Consulting Sanitary Officers, 22.

Consumption, pulmonary [see Phthisis], 176.

Contagion and disinfection, 259 seq.--nature of, 259.

Contagious Diseases Acts, 187.

Continental climates, 279.

Continued fevers, 151.

Contributory places, 8.

Convalescent homes, 272.

Conveyances for the sick, 266.

Copeman, Dr., on a local outbreak of malignant scarlatina, 149.

Death-rate [see Deaths], 95 seq.

Deaths-statistics of, 95 seq.-influence of sex on, 97-influence of age
on, 98-influence of place on, 101-influence of periods on, 107—
influence of seasons on, 108-influence of hours on, 111-influence of
professions on, 112.

De Chaumont, on ventilation, 249.

Defaulting Sanitary Authorities, 13.

Demoivre's law of mortality, 98.

Density of population, 122-influence of, on zymotics, 146.

Deodorants, 261.

Development of man, 130.

Dew-point, 289.

Diarrhoea, 165.

Dietary, 190.

Differences, settlement of, 6.

Diphtheria, 166.

Disease-statistics of, 25-registration of, 80, 81.

Diseases, artisans', 180-caused by vicious habits, 185-venereal, 186—
Contagious, Acts, 187.

Diseases-Prevention Act, 6-preventable and controllable, 135—zymotic
[see Zymotic Diseases], 137-from improper or deficient food, 175—
constitutional, 176 seq.

Disinfectants, 263.

Disinfection, 261 seq.-by heat, 265.

Dispensary Districts, 8.

Distomata, or flukes, 195.

Districts-sanitary, 3-alteration of, 4-dispensary, 8-united, 8—rural,
22-urban, 22 [see Appendix I.].

Drainage, influence of, on zymotics, 142.

Drainage of houses, 242.

Drains, house, 242.

Drunkenness, 186.

Dublin-death-rate of, 75, 76-fever-nests in, 143-outbreak of enteric
fever in, 155-small-pox epidemic in, 300-scarlatina in, 303—measles
in, 300-whooping cough in, 301-fever in, 306.

Duty, stamp, 20.

Duties-transfer of, 5-of sanitary officers, 24.
Dynamometer, Regnier's, 133.

Earth-closet, Moule's, 254.

Easements and rights, 10.

Eassie, Mr. W., on aspect for houses, 238.

Electoral division, 8.

Emigration from Ireland, 129.

England, population of, in 1871, 127.

English life-tables, 99, 100.

Enteric fever, 155-a disease of autumn, 308.

Enteric fever and subsoil water, 284.

Epidemic hospitals, 271.

Erysipelatous affections, 167.

Exanthemata, 169.

Executive Sanitary Officers, 22.

Ex-officio Sanitary Officers, 22.

Expectation of life, 71, 98—Willich's rule for determining, 100.
Expenses, 6, 9-general and special, 7-how to be defrayed, 7, 8.

Fahrenheit's thermometer scale, 287.

Farr, Dr., on after-lifetime, 98-life tables, 99-influence of occupation
on longevity, 113-small-pox epidemic of 1871, 172.

Faye, Prof., on Cholera, 297.

Fevers, continued, 151-seasonal prevalence of, 305.

Fever-nests in Dublin, 143.

Finlayson, Dr. James, on hours of maximum mortality, 111.

Fish, 196.

Flour, 198.

Food, 190 seq.-search warrant for unsound, 16-diseases arising from
bad or insufficient, 175-quantity of, 190, 192.

Forbes, Principal, on height, 130-weight, 132-strength, 134.

Fruit, 196-preserved, 197.

General Sanitary Acts, 32.

Geology and water supply, 213.

Glaisher's factors, 289, 290 [see Appendix III.).

Glasgow, enteric fever from milk at, 160.