TABLE N.-Offal removed during the year ended June 30, 1899. TABLE O.-Offal removed for ten years ended June 30, 1899. TABLE P.-Statement of garbage and dead-animal service for year ended June 30, 1899. It is to be regretted that no progress has been made toward the establishment of a service for the collection of ashes and general refuse and for the removal of the contents of box privies at public expense. The need for such a service is becoming more and more urgent each year. POUND SERVICE. The number of animals impounded during the year was 2,345, of which 2,274 were dogs. The amount collected in fees was $259.25, and from sales $125.75. The service has been hampered, as heretofore, by the necessity of using in connection with the disinfecting service certain of the laborers who would have been otherwise employed impounding stray animals. The usual tables showing the details of the work of the pound appear below. The recommendations for the purchase of a site for the pound and for the construction of a building for that purpose and as a general stable for the health department are respectfully renewed. TABLE Q.-Operations of the pound for the year ended June 30, 1899. TABLE R.—Animals impounded during the ten years ended June 30, 1899. Numerous cases have been referred to the attorney for the District or to the United States district attorney for the purpose of enforcing compliance with notices which have been served. It has been impossible, however, to keep an accurate record of the outcome of such cases. So far as could be observed, there was no alteration in the practice of the police court with reference to the method of disposing of such cases as have come before it, to which reference has been made in previous reports. LEGISLATION. The following laws relating to sanitary matters in the District of Columbia, which are printed at length in the appendix, were enacted by Congress during the past year. An act regulating the inspection of flour in the District of Columbia. Approved December 21, 1898. An act for the prevention of smoke in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Approved February 2, 1899. Joint resolution authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to alter, amend, or repeal certain health ordinances. Approved February 28, 1899. An act to cause the removal of weeds from lands in the city of Washington, D. C., and for other purposes. Approved March 1, 1899. This report would not be complete without an acknowledgment of the many courtesies which have been extended to the health department by Dr. Walter Wyman, Supervising Surgeon-General of the United States Marine-Hospital Service, and Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department, and the numerous officers connected with the work of those offices. Respectfully, WM. C. WOODWARD, M. D., The COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF Columbia. APPENDICES TO THE REPORT OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The publication of these reports as appendices to the report of the Health Officer is not to be construed to mean that the opinions and recommendations set forth in them have been adopted by the Health Department. 37 |