daily record of worked required to be done by contractors or individual property owners; gives the name of the person notified and the nature of the work to be done; marginal notes indicate compliance and/or the name of the party completing the work; also included in the rear of the book are miscellaneous accounts and inventories.

An example, from July 16, 1854: "Paul Burgimler--to clean privy, corner Bienville and Treme and remove the same three feet from the line of the nearest adjoining property [complied]"

In addition to repairs and similar work the record also includes references to patients taken to the Charity Hospital and to reports of burials performed by the office (the names of sick persons and persons being buried are usually given).

An example, from July 27, 1854: "Burial--buried at Cypress Grove Cemetery #2, the body of Charles Godenberg who died at the city lunatic asylum of pustulant infection (July 26), certified by E. Sabatier, M.D."