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Board, will be held on the subject of meat inspection, both inside and
outside the Central Market. It would negative the exaggerations and
bogies of imaginative and sentimental doctors, and, I believe, benefit
stockowners and butchers.
SANITARY WORK.
The following is an abstract of nuisances abated, and the sanitary
works performed between Lady-Day, 1894, and Lady-Day, 1895:—
227 Written complaints have received attention.
1897 Premises inspected and re-inspected.
2 Slaughter-houses visited (on the average six times each).
2 Cow-yards ditto (ditto ditto).
The Bakehouses, 23 in number, have all been inspected and defects
remedied.
House to house inspections have been made in the following streets:—
Jockey's Fields and whole of Italian Colony.
In compliance of Notices
98 Houses have been repaired, cleansed, and lime-whited.
1 Cesspool has been emptied and filled up.
320 Water-closets have been reconstructed.
60 Closets have been supplied with water.
69 Houses have been supplied with water for domestic purposes.
58 New drains have been made.
20 Drains have been ventilated.
12 Yards have been re-paved.
60 Dust-bins have been provided and repaired.
75 Accumulations of refuse matter have been removed.
19 New water-closets have been constructed.
73 Water-closets have been cleansed and repaired.
17 Houses have had their overcrowding diminished.
129 Premises disinfected with sulphurous acid gas and carbolic acid
after the occurrence of infectious diseases therein.
90 Illegal underground rooms have been closed.
In the course of the year the Sanitary Inspectors have seized and
destroyed as unfit for human food, 56 bodies of beef, 143 quarters of
beef, 358 stone of beef, 280 ox heads, 280 ox plucks, 45 Dutch calves,
1153 Dutch calves' plucks, 38 sheep, 524 sheep's plucks and heads, 13