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exercise increased vigilance in getting the closets
of the poorer class of houses supplied with water.
As a preparatory step to placing houses, which
are let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family, under a system of sanitary bye-laws
and constant supervision, I organized a special
inspection of every court, and of all the smaller
houses throughout the parish. The immediate result
of this, was the discovery of numerous sanitary
defects to which our attention might not otherwise
have been called.
The Special Sanitary Inspections included 198
streets, courts and places, containing a total of
3465 houses, of these, 3234 were reported on.
The number of houses occupied by a single family
was 1701, and by more than one family, 1533.
The number of houses occupied by two families
was 1130; by three families, 305; by four families
66; by five families, 17; by six families, 11; and
by seven families, 4. The higher numbers included
one or more single men lodgers. There were no
houses consisting of a single room. The number
consisting of two rooms was 437; of three rooms
305; of four rooms, 1425; of five rooms, 419; of
six rooms, 540; of seven rooms, 32; of eight
rooms, 23; of nine rooms, 10; of ten rooms, 3;
of eleven rooms, 3; of 12, 13, 15, and 21 rooms,
each 1. In a few cases the Inspector's returns
were only partially completed. In 12,266 rooms,
there were 4,880 families, consisting of 21,072
persnos, of whom 13,760 were adults, and 7,312
were children under 12 years of age. In 3,005
houses the number of w.c.'s was 2878. No water
was laid on in 1012; the apparatus was out of