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The number of houses inspected after cases of Enteric
(Typhoid) fever was rather less than in 1880.
The Markets have been regularly inspected and kept in
good order, so that in only 7 instances has it been necessary
to condemn articles of food exposed for sale.
The Slaughter-houses and Cow-sheds are also regularly
inspected and kept in a cleanly condition. No license was
opposed either by the Parish or by the Metropolitan Board
of Works.
I prepared, by order of the Committee of Works, a
Special Report on "the Sanitary Condition of the houses
in George Street, Hart Street, Brown Street, Providence
Court, and Tom's Court, Grosvenor Square, and the
immediate neighbourhood," from which it was seen that
infectious diseases were of rare occurrence there; and "that
the sanitary condition of the houses, whether as regards
overcrowding, or the removal of refuse matters, or the water
supply, is, at any rate, not such as to cause the slightest
anxiety."
A new Disinfecting Station has been built at the Parish
Yard in Pimlico Road, and one of Dr. Ransom's Selfregulating
Disinfecting Ovens fixed in it; this is a great
improvement on the old station and apparatus, and has
been constructed so that there is no air communication
between the chamber in which the infected articles are
received, and that in which the disinfected ones are put
before their return home, except through the interior of the
stove.
The Alkali, &c., Works Regulation Act, to Consolidate
the Alkali Acts of 1863 and 1874, which provides for the
registration and inspection of various chemical works, &c.,
came into operation on January 1st, 1882; but there are
no works affected by it in this Parish.