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have been lately too sensibly witnessed in those parts of the
District to which I have above particularly adverted.
During the past year about the usual amount of sanitary
works has been carried out by your Officers and under the
directions of your Board.
About 2200 houses have been inspected throughout the
District; the various Manufactories have been continually
inspected and reported on; 747 privies and cesspools have
been emptied and cleansed; 140 nuisances of other kinds
have been removed, such as the keeping of pigs, accumulations
of filth, dung, and dust heaps, &c. A large number of
houses have been cleansed, lime-washed, and repaired, such
as the houses in Collier Street, Deptford, Holdsworth's Rents,
Deptford, Queen Street and East Street, Greenwich, and
many other houses in various parts of the District, but the
exact number of which I have not been able to ascertain.
Many streets have been cleansed and paved, such as Blackhorse
Fields, Deptford, &c., for a statement of which, and
also a statement of the sewage, drainage, and water supply to
the District, I must refer you to the Tables accompanying the
Surveyor's Report.
The slaughter-houses, rag-shops, and places of trade likely
to become injurious to the public health, have been regularly
inspected, and the usual amount of surface cleaning of the
streets has been daily attended to by the Officers of the
Board.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HENRY N. PINK,
Medical Officer of Health.
Crooms Hill, Greenwich.
28th May, 1862.