CONTENTS. Page 1. General Report of the Board, 2. Expenses of the Board in 1873, 3. Preventive Medicine and the Physician of the Future,. 4. The Present Condition of Certain Rivers of Massachusetts, together with considerations touching the Water-Supply of 5. The Brighton Abattoir : Report of the Butchers' Slaughtering and Melting Association ; Description of the Abattoir ; Letter from Mr. Schultz, describing European Abattoirs in 1873, . 6. The Health of the Farmers of Massachusetts, 7. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Massachusetts in 1873, 9. Political Economy of Health, 11. The Work of Local Boards of Health, 12. The Use of Zinced or Galvanized Iron for the Storage and Con- ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 46 164 170 Abattoir at Brighton, plan of Brighton description of Brighton, Abattoirs in Europe, . of Paris described, diseased, 171 335, 360 43 148 155 471 470 237 47 82 83 173 26 450 516 153 350 472 474 Cambridge, city of, with reference to Miller's River nuisance, 11 Cambridge and Somerville, their responsibility for nuisances (see, also, Note after the Index), · 18 Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis in Massachusetts in 1873, 24, 263 analysis of 517 cases, 307 deaf-mutism consequent on, 308 has it prevailed among animals? 309 causes of, epidemic influence, 311 $4 310 . 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 Page Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, its apparent connection with insanitary surroundings, 311 places where it occurred visited by Dr. Upham, 296 places where it occurred in Boston, 279 its history, 263, 267 description of, 264 in Massachusetts, 1857-1865, 269 in Massachusetts in 1872, 270 statement of cases of, . 272 towns affected in 1873, 276, 285 Charles River, 90 examination of (Table), 92 as a source of water-supply, 142 water, examination of, by J. M. Merrick (Table), . 152 Charlestown, correspondence with health authorities of, 10 Cholera, Asiatic, 4 Cities, American, 369 growth of, 367 Classes, sustaining and dependent, 338 Clay lands, excavations in, 5 Clothing of persons disposed to consumption, 45 Cochituate water, by recent examination in Boston ( Table), 127 is its character changing ? 122 will it deteriorate? 123 Lake, water from, . 111 examination of water at (Table), 116 Committee on public health, 373 Consumption induced by living on wet soil, . 227 prevention of, in persons disposed to it by inheritance, . 37 Cruelty to animals in transportation and slaughtering, 22 66 . 66 66 66 337 455 480 254 Dana, S. A., Dr., on Merrimack water, restriction of, |