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as all the owners of property did the repairs necessary to make
the houses safe and habitable in accordance with notices served
under the provisions of the Nuisances Removal Acts. Some
time ago I visited all the houses which structurally might be
brought under these Acts, and all were altered or pulled down,
so that the periodical inspections made in accordance with the
Sanitary Act, 1866, and the repairs carried out under the notices,
have as a rule prevented the houses getting into such a condition
as to require these Acts being put into force. There has also
not been any necessity for action being taken under the
regulations, as the ordinary procedure under the Nuisances
Removal Acts and the Metropolitan Local Management Acts has
sufficed to obtain the abatement of the nuisances found on the
premises visited. Since this was written I have again inspected
these houses and arranged for the necessary works being done.
During the ordinary course of the inspection of small
houses, under the provisions of the Sanitary Act 1866, and
the Regulations, 4,705 houses, chiefly occupied by the poor,
were inspected; and 696 larger houses, not ordinarily
inspected, were visited to ascertain whether or not the sink and
the bath wastes were directly connected with the drains; also
to obtain the removal of bell traps, and the substitution of yard
gullies, and to disconnect rainwater pipes where the hopper
heads were near to windows. There were also 274 houses
visited in consequence of infectious diseases having appeared
therein, making a total of 5,675 houses inspected without
complaints being received here from their occupiers. In
addition to these, there were 1,056 houses inspected in
consequence of complaints received; 105 cow sheds and
slaughter houses visited, all more than once; 145 greengrocers',
as well as 73 poulterers' and fishmongers' yards visited; 127
bakehouses, and 86 urinals inspected; also three gut dressers,
a most offensive business, removed from the district on receiving
notice that unless they did so they would be summoned for
newly establishing the business.