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Works Company that they shall accommodate the whole or any
part of your District with a constant supply of water.
I believe also, I am right in stating, that such a scheme is practicable,
that the desirability of such an undertaking is undoubted,
and that a continuous supply will tend very considerably towards
the Sanitary improvement of the District and the domestic wants
of the people.
The last subject of importance which I consider to be my duty
to lay before you will be, an abstract of the other Sanitary works
performed in the District, from the commencement of your labors to
the 30th of April, 1857, viz.:—
401 feet of new pipe sewer, in Luton Place and Leach's Alley.
278 entries into sewers.
913 houses drained into sewers.
383 closets supplied with water, exclusive of drainage.
547 privies emptied, exclusive of drainage works.
936 cesspools and bogholes emptied and filled up with dry rubbish,
consequent on drainage.
65 nuisances, arising from accumulations of filth, stagnant pools
of water, &c., removed, by order of the Board.
12 old gullyholes trapped.
12 new street gullies made and trapped.
8 new waterclosets.
1 open ditch filled up with dry rubbish.
3 cases in which pig-styes have been removed.
52 slaughter-houses have been inspected on several occasions, and
kept in good Sanitary condition.
17 summonses have been taken out. The Magistrates have made
the order for the removal of the nuisances complained of,
and the expenses charged on the defendants.
The streets throughout the whole District have been generally
swept twice in every week, and in some instances three
times, when found necessary.
These works are such as can be verified from the books kept
by the officers of the Board; but there have been some thousands
of inspections made, and an immense number of nuisances removed,