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many respecting houses that had been shut up, but a large
proportion were from houses where the occupants always write,
and never put a "D" card in the window. These requests
were attended to only on the regular day, otherwise the work
could not be properly oarried out. The rota for the dustmen
has been arranged so that the carts should go down every street
at least once a week, and on a "D" card being shown in the
window the dust is removed. There were a few complaints, all
of which were trivial.
In accordance with the provisions of the Sanitary Aot,
1866, including the Lodging House Regulations, 5,213 houses,
chiefly ocoupied by the poor and containing two or more families,
were, as before stated, thoroughly inspected, and as many as 3,620
were found to be wanting in some sanitary requirement, or were
so dirty as to necessitate orders being served for whitewashing
and cleansing. As only 1,315 complaints were reoeived, whioh
included very many having no reference to the condition of the
houses, it is evident that this regular and systematic inspection
is of the greatest value in keeping these houses in a good
sanitary state. The number of houses inspected in a similar
manner in 1886 was 4653, against the 5,213 in 1887. The
enquiries at and the examination of these houses extend to the
number of families, of inmates, number of rooms; the state of
houses as regards oleanliness and repair; of the yards, dust-bins,
water supply and drainage arrangements, including a careful
examination as to the disconnection of direot communications
with the drains, of the sink waste and bath pipes, A similar
enquiry is made as regards the houses in which infeotious
diseases have appeared. A systematic inspection of the houses
oocupied by others than the poor, to ascertain if any direot
communication between the interior of the houses and the drains
existed, as well as to see that the servants' water olosets were
properly supplied with water, has been oarried on for years, as
opportunity has ocourred without interfering with the other
work. In many of these houses the drainage arrangements