The water does not appear bad microscopically. It is a little suspicious chemically, and will become worse as the season advances.

In August, G. G., aged 20, was taken sick with typhoid fever, confined to the bed till September 27; mild delirium one week; highest temperature, 105 2-5°; highest pulse, 130; recovered.

September 6, Nathan G., aged 61, took the bed with typhoid fever; remained in bed till November 2; muttering delirium four weeks; highest temperature, 105 4-5°; highest pulse, 140; lowest temperature, 98.8°; lowest pulse, 60; recovered.

In an adjoining house occurred one case attended with severe diarrhea, and after two weeks resulted in death. By referring

to the ground plan it will be seen that these two houses face on High street, near the corner of Franklin street, included in group a. By studying the ground plan, all the cases can be located,-18 in all.

Plate 2 shows the rear of b on the plan, also the head of what rejoices in the suggestive name of "Cat Alley." There are four privies in the shed, no vaults; receives the wash of the house, and overflow water stands on the surface of the ground nine months of the year. In this house there is sickness of some kind most of the time, embracing in the list, diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, and puerperal fever. These privies have not been cleaned out for an unknown period, the excrement and rubbish being exposed to view and sunlight at points marked 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Plate 3 is the house which is marked c on ground plan, within a few feet of house marked b. This house was built on a "muckhole"; the lot is lower than its surroundings; the well is in the cellar, as shown in the plate. Before the fever appeared, the water was foul and unfit for use; during the sickness in this family, the surface water ran into the cellar to a point near the well, into an excavation which the owner made for the purpose, and what did not soak into the ground and thus into the well was carried out in buckets and thrown on the ground, thence to find its way back into the well.

The record, as kindly furnished me by Dr. C. W. Adams, the attending physician, is as follows: C. B., aged 6 years, taken sick with typhoid fever August 28, 1885; sick twenty-eight days. Highest temperature first week, 104 2-5°; second week, 106 2-5°; third week, 106°. Highest pulse, 160 to 170. Largest number of stools in one day, 9, on the fifteenth day.

Mrs. B., aged 32, taken with typhoid fever September 23, sick thirty-seven days. Highest temperature first week, 104°; second week, 106°; third week, 107°; fourth week, 105°; fifth week, 104°. Severe diarrhea all the time. At the time of the highest temperature the pulse could not be counted. Complications: bronchitis from twenty-second to thirty-second day; oedema for three weeks.

Plate 4 shows the buildings just in the rear of No. 3. Across the lot, at the point marked 1, fecal matter crowded out on to the surface of the ground, and stood in fermented pools. At the point marked 2 is another surface privy in the same condition. At the point marked 3 a sink-spout is seen, which discharges on the surface of the ground, and for a circle of fifteen feet the soil is thoroughly saturated, the water standing in large puddles, exposed to the sunlight. It is directly opposite the door in the L, which opens into the kitchen and dining-room of the house in the foreground.

Plates 5 and 6 represent three houses in which there were four cases of typhoid fever. The locality is at the corner of Winnipesaukee and Franklin streets. Plates 5 and 6 must be studied

together, as they represent the same locality. Particular attention is called to Plate 6, the house marked A. B and C are privies; the light shading seen between the privies, C and B, represents

water, running or standing on the surface of the ground, coming down through or under the road, and out, as shown in the plate, spreading out on the surface of the ground opposite a house shown on opposite side of street. This water comes directly through the privy marked C in Plate 6, and flows past and over the sink-drains and overflowing cesspools from the main house, A, Plate 6, in which live three large families. Fecal matter can be seen as it is carried down on the surface of the ground by the force of the water into the yards of the houses on each side; the land being low and the soil heavy the stagnant water stands for weeks fermenting in the heat and sunlight.

In adjacent houses, the privies are in the rear and on the surface; no vaults, and back of these, on the elevated land which is shown on the plate, there are numerous springs which boil up and run down the hill through privies into the street, and a great portion of the time water stands in the back yards of these houses. In a majority of these houses the well is in the cellar. At the point marked g on the plan, there were four cases of typhoid fever. The sanitary conditions are shown in Plate 7.