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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 1st October, 1870:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 4016
Houses systematically visited and the rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 22
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 9
years of age for one adult, nuisance abated
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 27
Houses specially visited 266
Ditto specially re-visited 1064
Ditto registered by order of the Board 3
Certificates and copies of same prepared for the registration of the 9
above houses
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 52
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 353
Compulsory orders issued embracing 112 premises 38
Summonses heard at police courts 6
Workshops specially visited 13
Ditto specially re-visited 9
Copies of the Workshops' Regulation Act distributed 13
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 282
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 118
Drains in houses improved 93
Dust bins provided 67
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 105
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 119