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Improvements were effected at 1,109 places,
including the adoption of entirely new schemes
of internal drainage and re-arrangement of
lavatory conveniences from plans prepared by
the Sanitary Inspectors and approved by me.
Some of the largest establishments in the
City have been so dealt with ; the drawings
connected with these improvements are carefully
preserved at Cotton Street for future
reference.
944 "Orders" were made to abate nuisances
arising from defective drains, noxious trades,
neglect of dung-pits, fried-fish shops, dirty
bakehouses, indecent overcrowding, underground
dwellings, &c., &c.
The above figures are lower than in former
years, owing to the large amount of time given
in the latter portion of the year to the registration
of houses let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, a work
necessitated by the requirements of your recent
Bye-Laws for the regulation of this class of
property (see Report, 1896).