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Sanitary The sanitary work done by the Inspectors
Operation.
during 1887 exceeds that of any former
year. The large number of 9,864 inspections has taken
place in the Sub-district with the result that 926 first
notices were served to remedy 2,599 defects. It became
necessary to serve second notices in 203 instances, with
the result that such orders required magisterial aid in but
five cases, in each of which compulsory orders where obtained
and the works executed.
Although about the same proportion of notices to abate
nuisances to premises inspected has been served during
the last few years, yet the nuisances themselves are of a
less serious character, and are chiefly defects arising from
wear and tear of sanitary apparatus or due to destructive,
careless or mischievous habits of the inhabitants in some
localities.
Houses have been disinfected after infectious disease
in 290 instances, a great increase in the number for 1886,
when but 73 were so treated, and the result of the prevalence
of Scarlet Fever daring the whole of the year
under report. No cases have come to knowledge where
desease has recurred from failure of such disinfection and
time but confirms the thoroughness of the disinfecting
process by the method employed, sulphur fumigation.
In two instances it was found necessary to destroy