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Inspectors in the daily discharge of their duty,
as well as the re-inspection of the same property
during the execution of the works
required to remedy the same.
Improvements were effected at 1,278 places,
necessitating new systems of drainage at many
large establishments.
947 "Orders" were made by the Commissioners
to abate nuisances, including noxious
trades, smoke evil [49 cases reported], neglect
of dung-pits, fried fish shops, dirty bakehouses,
&c., &c.
The Inspectors' returns laid before you every
week give full details of this work.
Special attention has also been bestowed
upon cases of foul emanations from sewer
ventilators in road-ways, and during 1896
eleven shafts were fixed in front of adjacent
buildings, making in all 294 spread over the
City.
The erection of these shafts has proved a
great boon in some of the narrow streets, and