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The number of premises inspected during the year
ending Lady-day, 1896 was 6,240; 4,611 notices
were issued for the execution of works, and 36 summonses
were taken out before police magistrates for
non-compliance with the order of the Vestry. Six
hundred and thirty-two houses in a dirty and dilapidated
condition were cleansed and purified; 520 disinfected ;
and 28 closed as unfit for human habitation.
One hundred and thirty-four cases of overcrowding
were abated, against 71 in the previous year.
The number of closets trapped and panned and
otherwise repaired was 1,060, and 196 were supplied
with water.
The defective drains which were reconstructed
numbered 929 against 1867 in the previous year.
Only 3 old cesspools were discovered against 20 in
1894.
Defective roofs and rain shoots were repaired in
533 instances; 61 offensive accumulations, 7 animals
and 6 lots of fowls were removed as being a nuisance.
Several lots of pork, poultry, fish and fruit were
destroyed as being unfit for the food of man. The
fines inflicted in these cases amounted to £10 and
15/- costs.