That small-pox once introduced here would find a congenial home, I have little doubt, as I fear there are many children either not vaccinated or vaccinated so imperfectly that they are not sufficiently protected. With regard to the Hospital fever cases, I have only to repeat what I said when I first brought the matter under the attention of the Board of Health : " It is impossible for a health officer to perform his duties efficiently without raising np_ much ignorant opposition, bnt when a public institu tion, into which the worst cases of infectious diseases are admitted, is need for the purpose of thwarting him, it becomes a necessity for him in the interests of the public, to protest strongly against such conduct."—lhave, &c, Cotjbtnby Nbowilli, M.D., MeJical Officer. A further report from the same officer was also read:—

Christchnrch, Angust 14th, 1880. The Chair man Local Board of Health. Sir,—ln accor dance with your instructions, I have the honour to report on the outbreak of typhoid fever in the lane near Stanmore road bridge. One family living in this lane has four of its members seriously ill. In another family one child is suffering from a mild attack ; in a third there is a slight case, and in a fourth all of its members were indisposed. I have had consi derable difficulty in coming to any definite con clusion as to th& cause of theee cases. The first house attasked was surrounded by sneh well; marked unsanitary conditions that. I ; felt strongly inclined to believe in a local origin. On visiting the dairy, however, from which the. milk was supplied to these four families, I found everything unsalisfactory. Moreover, the milk man's wife voluntarily informed mc that she had herself beea very unwell for between two and three weeks, but that she had not been attended by a medical man. Her answers to the few questions I put to her left little doubt that she had been suffering from a mild attack oE typhoid fever. She told mc that about a dozen families were customers, of hers, but on the following day her husband said there had been of late enly six—the four above-mentioned and two others not living in the same lane. These two I visited, and was informed that they had not recently had any illness. 