6. Our Meat Supply and Public Health,

7. The Brighton Abattoir, etc.,

8. The Composition of the Air of the Ground-Atmosphere,

10. Cremation and Burial, an Examination of their Relative Advan-

Page

2

23

27

57

79

135

187

207

227

243

tages,

329

11. The Health of Towns,

12. A Report on the Sanitary Condition of the State Prison, at

ALPHABETICAL INDEX:

Abattoir at Brighton,

Accommodation for women in inebriate asylums, .

Act of Congress on treatment of animals in transitu,

Advantages of inspection of animals and meat,

Air, composition of, in ground-atmosphere, .

Air of ground-atmosphere, amount of carbonic acid in:

Page

. 15, 19, 187

43

88

183

. 20, 207

217, 218

210-212

213

Amusements for inmates of inebriate asylums,

Analysis of air in Massachusetts State Prison (Table),

of Cochituate water (Table),

209

208

221

237

236

127

235

40

377

299

122

of food of cattle (Table), .

of well-water:

in city of Dresden (Table),

in Dresden cemeteries (Table),

in and near cemeteries in Massachusetts (Tables), .

in thirteen towns of Massachusetts (Table),

Animals, acute and chronic diseases of, .

diminution of number kept by families,

effects on, and their flesh, by exhaustion,

by starving,

Parasites of,
Animal food, necessity of,

by terror,

Articles of food and medicine, effects on meat of animals, .

Page

174

333

17, 27

42

64

Bedding in stock-cars,

97

Beef-cattle, quality of:

Massachusetts and Maine,

118

New Hampshire, Vermont, Northern New York, Canada, the

number and source from 1862 to 1874 (Table), . Annual receipts from 1862 to 1874,