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Sessions—an expense which might be avoided, if the applications
for such licenses were made to the Justices in Special Sessions.
Under notices and proceedings by the Board, independently
of those which have been effected by private parties without the
action of the Board,
859 cesspools have been emptied and filled up.
295 new waterclosets have been constructed.
594 closets, hitherto unsupplied with water, have had water
laid on to them.
425 dustbins have been constructed.
307 private yards to dwelling-houses have been paved and
repaired.
357 houses have been whitewashed and cleansed.
150 new waterbutts and cisterns have been fixed.
A great number of pigs have been removed, as well as numerous
accumulations of filth; in several instances, unwholesome meat
exposed for sale has been seized and destroyed, by order of the
Magistrates; numerous foul drains and privies have been cleansed,
and other nuisances abated which similarly affect the public
health.
Partly through the intervention of the Board, and partly through
the good feeling of the owners, 37 houses, of a class nearly if not
quite unfit for occupation, have been pulled down.
11. While, on the whole, the Board has to congratulate itself
upon the ready co-operation it has met with from the Inhabitants
of the District, in carrying out the requirements of the Act, it has
to regret the necessity that has arisen for placing itself, to a
certain extent, in a hostile position with two parties—viz., the
Chartered Gas Company and Messrs. Broadwood. In the case of
the Chartered Gas Company, the Board considered it necessary to
apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus, the object of