and where complaints have been made the sanitary inspector has been diligent in the performance of his duties.

The president, S. H. Hunt, has devoted much time and labor to interest the citizens in the project of sewerage, and many of the nonresidents have signified their interest in the movement by organizing a company for the purpose of effecting that which now seems impossible, owing to the opposition to bonding the city or incurring further debts.

MATAWAN TOWNSHIP.

Report from BENJ. GRIGGS, Sec'y.

There has been erected on the outskirts of the village a soap manufactory, also used for the manufacture of fertilizers from the carcasses of dead horses and other animals, the smell from which has been exceedingly offensive. Complaint was made by persons living in the vicinity, and the Board of Health visited the premises and advised the proprietor to desist the operation, which he promised to do or remedy the evil. Since then complaint has been made before the grand jury of the county, and an indictment as a nuisance obtained, which case is now before the county courts.

There has been more malarial fever in the last six or eight months than we have had for two years past, but mostly in a mild form; otherwise our vicinity has been quite healthy.

OCEAN GROVE.

Report from Rev. A. E. BALLARD, Sec'y. The water-supply is still mostly derived from driven wells, and, so far as we can tell, remains uncorrupted. There have been a few cases where it has been suspected that the nearness of cesspools for wastewater has affected injuriously the wells near them. The location of wells or pools in every such instance has been changed.

The water from the artesian well has not diminished in its flow or changed in its purity. It still sends to the surface its fifty gallons each minute. The pipes by which it is conveyed through the Grove were saturated with coal-tar in their preparation and the water tasted of the tar. For this reason it has not been introduced generally. Several of the large hotels and a few of the smaller houses take their culinary and drinking-water from it, and as the tarry taste is disappearing, many more people are expecting to arrange for its use. It is never discolored, has no iron taste, is soft, it is not bad at any season

of the year; its pipes are cleansed by free flushing at suitable intervals and discharging into the sea.

The question of receptacles for water-waste is receiving increased attention. The larger houses have been induced to abandon the cesspools and substitute sewer connections for both pools and privy vaults. But the smaller ones, where there are but few occupants, and are only used during a part of the summer, mostly decline the expense of sewer connections, and the cesspool seems to be the only method left. That the danger of water-pollution from this source is continually increasing is accepted as a fact, and anxious consideration is being given to the subject. Large cemented vaults for the storage of water-waste are costly in construction and embarrassing in discharging, but as yet in the transition from the system where it percolates into the ground from uncemented vaults. There does not appear to be anything better at the present for this class of houses. The true remedy which must eventually be adopted by all, is connecting with the sewer.

There has been a gratifying increase in these connections during the year just past. Ninety-two new places have been added to the list, making altogether at the present time, two hundred and four connections. The extent of pipe already laid is over seven miles. They are cleaned at suitable intervals with water from the lakes forced into them by our steam engine. This grade is regular, on a fall of over twenty feet to one-third of a mile, and at the sea the outlet is both rapid and continuous. Up to this time there has never been any obstruction, and there is no perceptible odor or discoloration of the water for a distance of over three to five feet from its discharge. The taredo worm last fall destroyed the trunk by which the sewage was carried out into the sea, and which had cost us to lay, over four thou sand dollars. It has been replaced by a system of galvanized wrought iron pipes bolted to pilings, devised by D. H. Brown, Esq., treasurer, and which appears to work perfectly.

From the pipes through which it is drawn the water from the driven-wells sometimes tastes of iron, and in some cases discolors the tea or coffee made from it.

Except in a small area located in the southern part of the grounds, the cellars are dry. In these exceptional parts they are cemented. There are now no swamps near to us. The upper part of Fletcher Lake has been excavated to a clear gravel bottom, and its sides filled

in with gravel. That portion lying outside, between the turnpike and

railroad, has been filled in from three to five feet in depth with the best material obtained from Elberon, except a few feet, which is now being done under the supervision of the association. The utmost care has been taken to provide for drainage of surface-water into the lake below, and the free flow of the stream above the railway track. Extra large iron pipes have been laid for this purpose and carry all the flow. The work is pronounced by competent engineers to be of great sanitary value to all the surrounding territory. Upon this property a railroad depot is to be constructed, whose cemented privy vaults will either connect with the Asbury Park sewer, or whose contents will be removed in accordance with the rules of the Board.

The streets have surface-drainage into the sea. are raked over daily and the rubbish carted away.

The camp grounds

The parks and other public grounds are frequently subjected to the same process.

The streets are rounded in the center and the surface collections are removed as often as the needs of sanitation or comfort require.

Decaying matter left carelessly upon the ground around dwellings, obstructed cesspools, waste-water thrown upon the surface, rubbish upon vacant lots, garbage missed by collectors, have required incessant oversight, but in no known case have the offensive conditions been allowed to remain.

An official inspection of all the houses in the Grove was made during the past winter, by the secretary and assistants. Defective conditions were remedied by the secretary. The good effects have been felt for the whole of the past summer.

Kerosene is generally used by the people for artificial light, and the streets and shore are lighted with it. Up to this time no serious accident has occurred from its use.

The auditorium uses a gas made from iron combined with chemicals, which has given general satisfaction. A proposition to introduce gas into the Grove through iron mains has been seriously considered.

From about the middle of June to the middle of September the garbage is collected daily, and removed to a distance of over two miles. In the cooler months the removals are made semi-weekly or tri-weekly, as may be needed. Cesspools and privy vaults are cleaned, when necessary, by an excavator at any part of the season, and the contents carried the distance named above and buried. The thick matter which accumulates in these during the season is taken out in

the winter and either composted with muck and lime or buried with the rest.

The sanitary arrangements for tents elsewhere are on the basis of those required of cottages, which demand full provision for water, cesspools and privy vaults.

The houses are all annually inspected with reference to their arrangements for fire, and special attention is given in oversight of the construction of flues while they are building; outside iron fireescapes are required on all large buildings.

The cemetery is nearly two miles from the Grove, situated upon a high elevation, and the burials are conducted in harmony with the advice of the State Board.

There has been a general compliance with the ordinances of our Board of Health, in the rules and regulations. The general registration and vital statistics are attended to by the officers of the township.

Contagious diseases are reported to the secretary, and a personal quarantine established over them by the secretary in connection with the advice of the attending physician and the regulations of the State Board. There have been four cases of mild scarlatina reported, all of which recovered speedily. Two of typhoid fever, with one death, cause unknown.

The sanitary expenses in sewer outlet, the reconstruction of commodes, the removal of garbage, salary of secretary and policeman, and incidentals, have been large, but have all been met by the Ocean Grove Association, and do not appear on the books of the Board.

In all general matters the secretary has been guided by the published rules of the State Board. In special cases he has endeavored to obtain the advice of its secretary, which has always been freely given.

In the execution of its ordinances the Board has sometimes beencompelled to intrude upon privacy and exercise arbitrary power. It has been so sustained by the officers of the Association as to make its work practicable, and in most cases the people have been willing to co-operate with the Board in the arrangements deemed necessary for the public good.

SHREWSBURY TOWNSHIP.

Report from RICHARD A. SICKLES. The water-supply is from wells, and generally good, except in the thickly-settled parts of the township, where in many cases the water

is getting very poor. In the town of Red Bank, containing a population of nearly four thousand, the supply now is entirely from wells, and the water from them is very much contaminated with foreign matter or soakage. The commissioners of the town have made a contract for the erection of water works to supply and be owned by the town. It is to consist of a well fifteen feet in diameter, sixty-four feet deep, to reach the water-bearing sand below the marl, the water to be pumped from the well into a reservoir situated on a hill about one and a half miles distant, the water being forced from the well to the reservoir on the hill by large-sized pumps. The pipes connecting the two are laid. Hydrants for fire and street purposes are stationed at intervals along the main, and connecting pipes to be laid in all the streets in the corporation. The well at the present time is down fiftysix feet, and the water is coming in freely, to the extent of about two hundred thousand gallons per day. Three experimental pipe-wells were sunk to determine the exact depth of the water-bearing sand below the lower marl bed, where the State Geologist was confident an abundant supply of pure water under pressure existed. These experiments prove the correctness of the theory, and at a depth of sixtythree to sixty-seven feet the water rose to within ten feet of the surface. Pumping freely from the pipes showed the supply to be practically inexhaustible. Samples of the water were analyzed by the State Geologist, Prof. G. H. Cook, who reported it pure and soft, unexceptionable for laundry purposes, steam boilers and family use. It is expected that the water works upon the plan adopted will be completed by the beginning of the year.

In all other respects I believe the condition of the township is the same as the report made last year.

CHATHAM TOWNSHIP.

MORRIS COUNTY.

Report from I. A. DE HART, M.D. Complaint was made to this Board of a butcher both as to his slaughter-house and a pig-pen containing twelve pigs, adjoining the slaughter-house, into which all the offal and other refuse was thrown. Notice was served upon him to remove them, and as he did not do so, after waiting a reasonable time the counsel of the Board was instructed to notify him that legal proceedings would be commenced against him at once if he did not comply with the notice sent him.