TO THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST

HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL.

MY LORDS,

IN obedience to the Public Health Act, 1858, I have the honor of herewith submitting to your Lordships, for presentation to Parliament, my statement of the proceedings which were taken under the Act during the year 1865, and, in connexion with that statement, some few considerations on other important sanitary facts of the year.

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3. Educational Vaccinating Stations

II. The Distribution of Disease in England, and the Circum-

stances by which it is regulated

A. Systematic inquiries, continued

1. House Accommodation of the Poor

2. Effect of Sanitary Improvements

3. Question of Injury from Infected Rags

4. Scientific Researches

B. Occasional inquiries, chiefly with immediate reference to
local outbreaks of disease

III. Foreign Epidemics of the year and the General Question of

Contagion in its bearings on the Public Health

1. "Siberian Plague "

2. Asiatic Cholera again in Europe

3. Yellow fever at Swansea

§ Considerations on Quarantine

APPENDIX.

No. 1. Statistics of the National Vaccine Establishment

No. 2. Report by Dr. Henry Julian Hunter on the Housing of

the Poorer Parts of the Population in Towns, parti-

cularly as regards the Existence of Dangerous Degrees

of Overcrowding and the Use of Dwellings unfit for

Human Habitation

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No. 3. Report by Dr. John Syer Bristowe on inquiries whether

the Rag Trade is of influence in spreading Infections

of Disease

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No. 4. Report by Di George Buchanan on Epidemic Typhus at

Greenock

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No. 5. Report by Dr. Edward C. Seaton on Circumstances en-

dangering the Public Health of Chichester

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No. 6. Report by Dr. Henry Julian Hunter on Circumstances

endangering the Public Health of Leeds

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CONTENTS.

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No. 7. Report by Mr. John Netten Radcliffe on several con-

current cases of Puerperal Fever at Maidenhead

No. 8. Extracts from Reports relative to Local Outbreaks of

Disease in various parts of England, and from Reports

on General Sanitary Inquiries

a. By Dr. Milroy on the sanitary state of Harwich

b. By Dr. Hunter on the sanitary state of Harting

c. By Dr. Hunter on the sanitary state of Hadlow

d. By Dr. Hunfer on the sanitary state of Great

Ormesby

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e. By Dr. Sanderson on Diphtheria at Waltham

Abbey

f. By Dr. Hunter on Scarlatina at Aston Clinton

No. 9. Letter addressed, April 19th, 1865, to the Lord President,

on certain Epidemics prevailing in the North of Europe;

with supplementary Memorandum on Epidemic Cerebro-

Spinal Meningitis; by the Medical Officer of the Privy

Council

No. 10. Report by Dr. George Whitley on the Fevers prevailing

epidemically at St. Petersburg in the winter 1864-5

No. 11. Report by Dr. John Burdon-Sanderson on the Epidemics

of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis prevailing about the

Lower Vistula in the beginning of 1865

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No. 12. Substance of other Communications relative to Cerebro-

Spinal Meningitis -

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No. 13. Report by Mr. John Netten Radcliffe on the Sources and

Development of the present Diffusion of Cholera in

Europe

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No. 14. Report by Professor Parkes, M.D., F.R.S., on the Out-

break of Cholera in and about Southampton in Septem-

ber and October 1865

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No. 15. Extract from Mr. Radcliffe's Report on the Outbreak

of Cholera at Theydon Bois, Epping

No. 16. Report by Dr. George Buchanan on the Outbreak of

Yellow Fever at Swansea

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No. 17. Quarantine Regulations of the French Government for

cases where infection of Yellow Fever is suspected, and

Remarks thereupon by the Medical Officer

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