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were also taken against the occupiers of two factories in the Parish
of Greenwich, respectively, for similar offences, and they were each
fined £10, and 2s. costs.
Proceedings were also taken against two persons for unlawfully
throwing or laying rubbish in certain thoroughfares in the
Parish of Saint Paul, Deptford, and they were each fined 5s.,
and 2s. costs.
During the year, 671 newly-erected houses in the district,
viz. : —284 in Greenwich, and 387 in Saint Paul, Deptford, 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, 1,127 rooms and the following
articles were disinfected after cases of infectious disease, namely :
8 15 beds, 1,657 pillows, 614 bolsters, 229 palliasses, 286 mattresses,
609 sheets, 886 blankets, and 4,169 odd articles, making 9,295
articles in all. It was found necessary during the same period to
destroy 7 beds, 14 palliasses, 1 pillow, 1 bolster, 6 cushions, and
25 odd articles, making together 54 articles, which had become
infected. During the same period 5 class rooms of a school in
the district were disinfected, in consequence of there having been
an epidemic of measles among the children attending that
school.
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