carried out in the district, but it was found to be quite insufficient in its powers to be of any material service in remedying the evils existing. Many of the cellars are occasionally flooded. This could be remedied by a proper system of drainage. Tremadoc is a few feet lower than Portmadoc. The general level of the street is about five feet above the highest water mark. In most cases it has been the habit to let the privy refuse soak into the ground. The town is generally built on sand, and alluvial deposit. The cesspools are mere holes dug in the ground without any proper lining, so that constant permeation is going on. The water is affected by this soakage, besides which it is strongly unpregnated with iron pyrites; from both of these causes it is rendered undrinkable.
The Number and Sanitary Condition of the inhabitants.
At the present time it is estimated that in Portmadoc alone there is population of from 1,800 to 2,000; and in Tremadoc from 500 to 600.
Average annual mortality to 1,000 persons living, 20.3.
Mr. Jones, Surgeon, stated,
That he considered much of the mortality is due to preventible disease, which is much assisted by the want of proper drainage and water supply.
Mr. Jones, Medical Officer of the Union, stated:
That the deaths from scarlet fever in 1835 were very numerous. The cases spread throughout the district, but the worst cases occured in those places ill-drained and badly supplied with water. Overcrowding in some of the dwellings is common. He has known as many as twenty seven persons living in a six roomed house. This was one of the houses where fever occured. Has no doubt that better drainage and better water would have the effect of very materially improving the sanitary condition of the place."
General description of that part of Ynyscynhaiarn, comprising the District of Tremadoc, Portmadoc, &c.
On the cliff above Portmadoc, it is proposed to erect a first class hotel, and villa residences, with a good and accessible road from them to the beach. There is little doubt if this is done that Portmadoc will become one of the finest watering places in the Kingdom. The view obtained from the Cliffs are truly magnificent. The eye takes the whole sweep of the noble Cardigan Bay, with the bold and picturesque ruins of Harlech Castle, on the opposite side. Looking inland, you see the bright green of the recovered marsh lands, and beyond the broken outline of the
