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New Sewers.
Since the publication of the list of new sewers in my Report for the
Quarter ending 28th December, 1867, two additional sewers have been
constructed, viz., one in Mount Street, which is a 12-inch pipe, of 330 feet
in length, and the other in Tenter Street North, and Alie Place, which is a
15-inch pipe, of 456 feet in length. The total length of new sewers,
constructed in this District at the public cost, is now 21,345 feet, or upwards
of four miles.
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending March 30th, 1872:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3345
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; nuisance in each case abated 11
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 15
Houses specially visited l90
Ditto specially re-visited 594
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 299
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 79 premises 54
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 83
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of)
small-pox, fever or scarlet fever, therein 17
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 20
Drains in houses improved 68
Dust-bins provided 7
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 113
Cesspool abolished 1
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 18
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 30
Donkey, kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 1
When rooms are disinfected after any contagious disease, the landlord
is required to strip off the paper, and thoroughly cleanse and disinfect the
walls and ceilings. On stripping off the paper, it is sometimes found to be
upwards of an inch in thickness, layer upon layer of paper having been