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inspected and report to the Vestry during the year
was 6,146, being 3,198 more than in the previous
year.
The notices served for the execution of the sanitary
works required were 5,992, being 3,089 above
the number issued in 1883, and fifty-three times
as many as were given ten years ago. 378 houses
were repaired and cleansed and 141 houses where
infectious diseases had been were disinfected cleansed
and purified. This includes all cases of the kind
that were brought under the notice of your sanitary
officers, which was almost exclusively done through
the returns of the Registrars of Deaths. 2,029
houses had water supplied to the closets. In 1883
the number of houses so supplied was 603. 464
stopped drains were cleared, 187 defective ones repaired
and 285 relaid or new made. In 407 cases
the water supply apparatus was repaired, and in
646 the waste pipes were severed from direct
communication with the sewers.
The number of complaints respecting trade
nuisances has much abated during recent years.
There can be no doubt that various trades, which
are almost peculiar to this parish, and which in
certain process are offensive to the senses, are much
more carefully conducted than was formerly
thought to be necessary. Various nuisances of a
minor character have been abated.
In all these and other matters, Mr. Thomas has
rendered me every assistance with his usual
courtesy.