SANITARY CONDITION. 189 
It should be considered that in the settlements upon some of : 
the islands, the population is very.much crowded, and that the - 
health of the people suffers in consequence. Gov. Rawson, in 
his report for 1864, estimated that the population of Dunmore 
Town, upon the island of Eleuthera, was 2,500, and that the. 
density was ‘‘ about forty persons to the acre, or 124 square yards - 
to each individual, which is nearly six times the average of the: 
781 principal towns in England” in 1861. He adds, ‘‘the con- 
sequence is that for the last two or three years the place has been - 
very sickly, and typhoid fever has committed considerable rava- 
ges among the inhabitants. 
Upon a little key at the extreme north-west point of Eleu:- 
thera, and about:-five miles from Harbour Island, the settlement. 
of Spanish Wells is situated. Gov. Rawson states in his report 
of 1864, that the inhabitants of Spanish Wells ‘‘ have continued - 
to divide and sub-divide their lots among their children, so that. 
the houses almost touch each other, and in some places the (so- 
called) street is not over three or four feet in width. The area 
of the settlement does not exceed three acres; so that the popu- 
lation is upwards of 150 to the acre.” He adds, ‘‘ they are un- 
cleanly in their habits, and all attempts to introduce sanitary 
rules among them have hitherto failed. ee apes typhoid 
fever has lingered here, too, for the last three years.’ 
Gov. Rawson also speaks of another settlement upon Elen. 
thera, called Governor’s Harbor, where, he says, ‘‘the density 
of the population equals, if it does not exceed that of Spanish 
Wells.” He says it is situated upon a rock, about 300 yards. 
long, by 100 yards wide, which is connected with the main land 
by 2 narrow neck of land, and that this rock is ‘in miniature, 
very like the Rock of Gibraltar.” 
He also states that ‘‘the people at Devil’s Point, upon St. 
Salvador, have the worst reputation of any upon that island,” 
