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SANITARY WORK FOR THE YEAR, 1879-80.
(Table No. VI.
This table of our Sanitary Work has been prepared in the
usual manner, showing, in the first part the number and variety
of the inspections, re-inspections, and calls made by the District
Inspectors during the year; and in the second part the amendments
which have been effected.
In addition to these improvements, the three District
Inspectors reported during the year that dust was required to be
removed from 664 houses, this number not being included in the
removals ordered as the result of the special work of the Inspector
of dust which will be found stated in the note at the bottom of the
table.
By the authority of the Sanitary Committee, carbolic acid
was again employed during the summer, as in former years, for
watering some of the streets. McDougall'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, these thoroughfares
being used as market places until late on Saturday night.
There have been no summonses issued during the year, the
work having been carried out without the necessity arising for
extreme measures. These are never resorted to unless they are
unavoidable.