694 TOWN SANITATION. 
9. The arrest of infectious diseases. State views on the 
compulsory notification of infectious diseases. 
10. Disposal of the dead. 
11. The supervision of nuisances. 
12. Liability to outbreaks of special diseases, and their connec- 
tion with any insanitary condition. 
13. State suggestions as to the most suitable means of 
improving the sanitation of your town, or, in your 
opinion, the best system to be adopted to place it in a 
reasonably sanitary condition. 
14. Statistics as to population, death-rate, and general 
character of the diseases which prevail. 
The following gentlemen courteously favoured the committee 
with replies :—Dr. Coppeadge (Roma), Dr. Vivian (Rockhampton), 
Queensland; Dr. W. C. Aild (Kiama), Dr. W. J. Bassett 
(Bathurst), Dr. W. Asher (Lithgow), New South Wales ; Dr. D. 
F. Fleetwood (Warrnambool), Dr. H. H. Radcliffe (Ballarat), 
Dr. H. H. Gordon (Clunes), Victoria; Dr. Markham (Port 
Augusta), Dr. Mitchell (Port Adelaide), T. Farrell, Esq. 
(Adelaide), South Australia; Dr. 8. H. Beard (Masterton), 
Dr. Neil (Wellington), New Zealand; J. G. Bushman, Esq. 
(Launceston), Tasmania. 
Communications from other sources, in the shape of Health 
Acts and reports of health boards, have also been received. The 
committee desire to acknowledge their indebtedness to Dr. 
Mitchell, Dr. Vivian, Dr. Neil, Dr. Radcliffe, Mr. Farrell, and 
Mr. Bushman, for their admirable reports. 
The paucity of the replies received, as well as the heavy labour 
involved in an attempt to bring all the colonies under one report, 
induces the committee to make the suggestion that in future the 
work of any similar “town sanitation ” committee should for the 
year be restricted to one colony, and, if possible, the colony in 
which the annual meeting of the Association for that year shall 
be held. It is further suggested that the honorary secretary 
should be a resident of the same colony. 
This suggestion, combined with the fact that the present 
honorary secretary had before him ampler information respecting 
the colony of South Australia than any other, the report has 
been limited to the “‘town sanitation ” of that colony. 
It may briefly be stated that the Health Acts of South Aus- 
tralia are under the administration of a Central Board of Health, 
the president being a Government officer. Appointments upon 
the board are in the hands of the Cabinet. By a recent enact- 
ment, all civic corporations and district councils are local boards 
of health. Corporations have power to raise a special sanitary 
rate, while both corporations and district councils may appoint 
