b—Permanent Health Officer's Report for December.
During December the Public Health has been satisfactory.
Small-pox is, however, more than usually prevalent among the Chinese, so that foreigners, who have not been ly vaccinated daring the past three years, should attend to vaccination without delay. All Chinese and also indigent foreigners are vaccinated without charge daily at the Health Office.
A further draft of cattle has been brought down by railway direct to the Cattle Sheds and sold to the butchers.
It is proposed to bring down larger and more frequent drafts until the local dealers falfll sanitary require-
Nitrogen as Nitrates Saline Aramonia Albuminoid Ammonia.
Poisonons Metals Nitrites Phosphates Sulphates Bacteriological Examination,—Gelatine plates incubated at 22°e. yielded an average of 120 microbes pet c.c., of which about 1 in 8 were liquefying onranisms, Agar plates at blod heat produced 56 microbes per ce, Bacteria of the Coli type were found in quantities of 0.5 ce. and upwards, Report on Analysia—A sample of water of ood degree of chemical and fair desrrce of bacterial purity.
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