168 REPORT—1868. 
FEMALES. 
OF Teter ace 4months........ Ulcers. 
OT Acpounret te SVEN | Mere wile Not known. 
SRE Srmciten tie MOREY Ge Lyne ast 5 Scrofula. 
TS Ste state MGYCAES| Maeve. = theses Cold. 
Bl fils daete SOOM hn arcloe Senate Consumption. 
AS ope Giese ligase Rete. arehe e's Abscess. 
UB aero o blade Seay VA Bane r Consumption. 
GS erat, cs 56, asd ate Consumption. 
fe oer ae SOM Pant o.os Gradual decay. 
Within a recent period the New-England Company have commenced the drain- 
age of swamps in the immediate vicinity of Kanyeageh, but more comfortable and 
better ventilated dwellings are required for the Indians. The food taken by the 
Indians is often insufficient and unwholesome, and their clothing does not serve to 
keep out the cold of a Canadian winter. 
A wooden building is in course of erection near the church for a school-house. 
The hours of school are to be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.M., with an hour of intermission 
from 12 to 1 o’clock. The Indians of this station have given up wandering, and 
are now settled down as farmers, haying no inducement for leaving the reserve. 
Their employments consist in farming, and the manufacture of axe-handles, sledges, 
stable-brooms, and whip-stocks. The women make baskets, straw hats, and bead- 
work, 
The consumption of spirits by the Indians of the reserve is much less than it was 
formerly. One of the Government medical officers of the Indian reserve has in- 
formed the Rey. R. J. Roberts that “the consumption of spirits hy white people is 
much greater than by the Indians of this settlement.”” Among the Indians there 
are several temperance societies. 
A Brief Statement of the Recent Progress and Present Aspect of Statistical 
Inquiry in relation to Shipping Casualties. By Henry Juvra, LR.G.S., 
F.SS., Hon. See. to Statistical Committee at Lloyds’. 
On the Arterial Drainage of Norfolk. By Sir Wittovensy Jonzs, Bart. 
The subject of the arterial drainage as distinguished from the fen-drainage of 
Norfolk may be defined to be a description of the watercourses that find their own 
way into the sea, instead of haying their contents pumped into it by steam or other 
ower. 
: The rainfall of Norfolk has been variously stated at from 24 to 26 inches; it is 
much to be desired that the rainfall not only of Norfolk but of England generally 
was more accurately determined, and that a more regular, uniform, and accurate 
system of registering the rainfall was generally adopted. By making use of the 
union houses and prisons as rain-gauge stations, the gauge being uniform in make 
and in height above the soil, and the results uniformly registered by the governor 
or some member of the resident staff, this might easily be accomplished. 
The evils of water-mills in a flat country are strongly evidenced by the condition 
of the Norfolk valleys. Everywhere the streams have been treated as means of 
obtaining power to grind corn and not as drains or watercourses. The result is 
that every foot of fall is utilized, and the streams are still water between mill and 
mill. Often the bed of the river is raised some feet above the land on either side, 
the result being that much valuable land is destroyed for want of drainage, and the 
villages and towns in the valleys are very unhealthy from fevers and other forms 
of malaria. The Anacharis alsinastrum is another cause of obstruction, the rivers 
in many places being almost choked by it ; and it being nobody’s duty to keep them 
clear, this evil keeps increasing. 
__The river system of Norfolk itself is very peculiar. The country is in fact an 
island, no stream flowing into it from any other county, and no stream flowing out 
of it. The sea, the fens, the Little Ouse, and the Waveney entirely surround it, the _ 
