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keeping swine in a locality, premises, or place unfit for that
purpose, and he was fined 3s., and 2s. costs, and the pigs were
removed from such premises.
During the year, 372 newly-erected houses in the district
were inspected for the purpose of ascertaining if they were
provided with a proper and sufficient supply of water, and such
being found to be the case, the Sanitary Authority granted a
certificate to that effect in respect of each of such houses.
During the same period, 1,416 rooms and the following
articles were disinfected after cases of infectious disease, namely:
1,021 beds, 1,904 pillows, 659 bolsters, 373 palliasses, 301
mattresses, 606 sheets, 787 blankets, and 4,801 odd articles,
making 10,452 articles in all. It was found necessary during the
same period to destroy 8 beds, 28 palliasses, 8 pillows, 8 mattresses,
4 bolsters, and 12 cushions, making, together, 68 articles which
had become infected.
During the year the premises in East Street, Greenwich,
acquired by the Board for the purpose of providing shelter and
accommodation for the temporary use of such inhabitants of the
district as might be compelled to leave their dwellings for the
purpose of enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the
Sanitary Authority, were so used by eleven families.
During the year, Mr. Phillip Shelley was appointed as an
additional Sanitary Inspector for the Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford,
at a salary of £125 per annum.
In pursuance of resolutions passed by the Board, advertisements
were inserted in the local newspapers, and bills issued, giving
notice to tradesmen and others in the district that the throwing