CITY OF BOSTON.

TO HIS HONOR THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF BOSTON :

In obedience to the ordinance relating to the public health, we herewith present our third annual report.

Our last report gave a statement of the acts of the Board up to and including the thirtieth day of April, A. D. 1874. There was then no epidemic in the city, nor has there been any during the year.

APPOINTMENTS, ETC.

On the 13th of April, subject to the approval of the Mayor, we reappointed Samuel A. Green, M. D., City Physician, C. I. Fisher, M. D., Port Physician, and George W. Forristall, Superintendent of Health, for the ensuing year. On the 4th of May we reappointed N. A. Apollonio, Registrar of deaths and burials.

The report of the City Physician and that of the Superintendent of Health accompany this report.

No additional sanitary inspectors have been appointed during the year; we have now the same number as last year, and the same men.

As in the previous year, we began early to disinfect the city thoroughly, every lane, alley, court, and by-place that seemed to need it, and as often as necessity required. This work was continued until the hot season was over, and there

appeared, when the cooler weather came, to be no further need of these services.

In December, Albert T. Whiting, Esq., who had been reappointed a member of this Board for a term of three years from May last, resigned on account of pressing business engagements; his resignation to take effect Jan. 1, 1875, and Mr. Henry G. Crowell was appointed to fill the vacancy.

Mr. Whiting possessed those sterling qualities which rendered his services upon the Board of the greatest value. He took with him, on his retirement from office, the warmest friendship of his associates on the Board, and all connected with the department.

SMALL-POX.

There was no case of small-pox in the city, known to us, until Dec. 17, when two cases occurred, both traced directly to another State; on the 24th of December a third case was reported; on the 4th of April of the present year, a fourth, and on the 19th, the fifth and last case was reported. These were all we have had during the year, and they were all removed to the hospital.

The first case, of Dec. 17, recovered and left hospital Dec. 26. The second also recovered and was discharged Feb. 5th. The case of Dec. 24th (Thursday) was that of a woman who came from another State on the Monday preceding, with the small-pox eruption then two days old, she knowing it to be such; but who came here, as she said, because she did not wish to go into a hospital in the city whence she came. She recovered and left Jan. 7.

The case of the 4th of April was that of a man who contracted the disease on board of a ship, arrived in Boston March 29, and was taken from a boarding-house a few days later. He recovered and left the hospital on the 24th of April. The eruption was four days old before this case came to the knowledge of the Board of Health. The usual

AGE.

1 to 5. 5 to 10. 10 to 20. 20 to 30. 30 to 40. 40 to 60. 60 to 80.80 to 90. Over 90.

Infantum.

Consumption.