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accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences for the use
of the workpeople employed in or in attendance at workshops and
buildings, 34; to make premises fit for human habitation, 48;
to re-drain houses, 122; to abolish cesspools, 16; to cleanse and
disinfect cesspools, 8; to provide proper means of ventilation to
houses, 8; to cease occupying premises, as a dwelling-house,
without water closet accommodation, 1.
During the same period 1,416 rooms and the following
articles were disinfected after cases of infectious disease, namely :—
1,205 beds, 2,286 pillows, 822 bolsters, 543 palliasses, 838
mattresses, 801 sheets, 1,206 blankets, and 5,420 odd articles,
making 13,121 articles in all. It was found necessary during the
same period to destroy 15 articles which had become contaminated
by contact with cases of infectious disease.
The above-mentioned Notices were, in most cases, complied
with, but proceedings were taken against the owners of four houses
in Greenwich for neglecting to execute such works and do such
things as were necessary for the purpose of abating the nuisances
arising upon the premises, which resulted, in three cases, in the
Magistrate making orders for the execution of the required works,
which were afterwards satisfactorily carried out; and in the
fourth case, the owner, pending the adjourned hearing of the
summons, caused the whole of the required works to be executed
to the satisfaction of the Board's Inspector.
Proceedings were also taken against the owner of a house,
and the occupiers of two other houses, in the Parish of Greenwich,
for neglecting to abate the nuisances arising upon those
premises, and the Magistrate made orders prohibiting the use