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SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR 1875-6.
See Table No. 11.
This table of our sanitary work has been prepared in the usual
manner, showing in the first place the number and variety of the
inspections, re-inspections, and calls made by the District Inspectors
during the year, and in the second part are set forth the amendments
which have been made. In addition to these improvements the
three District Inspectors reported that dust was required to be
removed from 6,693 houses, this number being quite exclusive of the
removals ordered as the result of the special work of the Inspector
of Dust, which is noted at the bottom of the table. Many of these
6,693 removals were reported as arising out of the ordinary inspections
and visits of the Inspectors as enumerated in the table,
although in respect to the remainder they not only called at the
houses and ascertained that dust was required to be removed, but in
doing this they also specially visited 5,397 other houses where
requisition for removal was not made. We were again short
handed in the Sanitary Department for four months of the year, but
on the whole I find that the table compares favourably with those of
former years, more especially if we consider that the epidemic of
Scarlet Fever entailed a large amount of extra work, which cannot
very well be particularised in a table of this kind. I regret, however,
that it is not possible to have a larger number of the poorer class of
houses systematically inspected, as it is often by such means only
that their cleansing and reparation are effected, and that overcrowding
is kept in check.
By the authority of the Sanitary Committee, carbolic acid was
again used as in previous years in the watering of some of the
streets during the summer; McDougal's powder was also used in
the hottest and driest part of the season in the courts, and in
connection with the Sunday morning cleansing of the channels of
the Essex, Caledonian, and Holloway Roads, where these thoroughfares
are used as market-places until late on Saturday night.
SUMMONSES.
During the year seven summonses, not previously referred to,
were issued by the authority of the Sanitary Committee, six of them
being heard at the Clerkenwell Police Court, and one by the Justices
in Petty Sessions at the Vestry Hall. In the latter case a convice
was obtained, a penalty of 40s. and 7s. costs being inflicted for the