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Sanitary Works Performed during the. Quarter ended
3rd July, 1880.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 3rd July, 1880.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2975
Houses specially visited 300
Houses specially re-visited 1050
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 310 premises 184
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 126 premises 60
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 2
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 3
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 6
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 6
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 141
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 29
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus .. 1031
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 24
Drains in houses improved 61
Bust-bins provided 4
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 159
Water supply provided or improved 12
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 28
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 6
Animals (rabbits, fowls and geese) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 12
Cesspools abolished l
Nuisance from smoking and curing of fish 1
The Cow-houses in the District, 25 in number, and the Slaughterhouses,
14, have been visited during the Quarter.
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 have promptly attended to.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.