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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending 2nd April, 1870:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 4692
Houses systematically visited and the rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 15
Houses specially visited at night 35
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10
years of age for one adult 10
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 15
Houses systematically re-visited 250
Ditto registered by the order of the Board 13
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above houses 33
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 37
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 469
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 109 premises 50
Summonses heard at police courts 3
Workshops specially visited 8
Ditto overcrowded 4
Ditto specially re-visited 15
Houses in which the rooms' or passages have been whitewashed .... 138
Cesspools abolished 22
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 161
Drains in houses improved 101
Dust bins provided 53
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 154
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 125
Water-waste preventers erected 3
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 5
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 12
Instances where corpses were hept in inhabited rooms for prolonged
periods so as to be a nuisance 1
Dung and other offensive matter removed 12
The cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 38 in
number have been visited during the quarter.
The bake-houses (83 in number) have been specially visited during
the same period.
Nuisances caused by the accumulation of dung and other offensive
matter, and from stopped privies are very numerous. These are not
recorded in the books of the Inspectors unless official notices are served.
In addition to this return the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous
structures, which notices the Metropolitan Board has promptly attended to.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDIE.
15, Geeat Alie Street.