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Dust Bin provided 20
Removal of Pig nuisances 4
Unwholesome dwellings lime-whited 1
Nuisance from foul ditch removed 1
Magisterial interference 0
, For the Parish of Wandsworth.
Number of Houses inspected 65
First notices served 13
Second do. do 1
Cesspools emptied 19
Ditto filled up 19
Drained into Sewer 18
Closets constructed 18
Dust Bins provided 13
Removal of vegetable, dung, and other offensive matters
5
Removal of Swine 1
Unwholesome dwelling cleansed 1
Magisterial interference 0
(Signed,,)
J. NIBLETT, Inspector.
In respectfully urging upon the Board a continuance of efforts in
the same direction, the excellent precautionary advice lately issued by
the President of the Board of Health, and subsequently endorsed by the
Registrar General, may be very appropriately referred to: the former
authority thus concludes his able manifesto—" Local Boards may be
"well assured that if any precautions adopted by them against Cholera,
"should hereafter seem to have been superfluous in relation to that
"epidemic,—if the suggested possibility of a fourth visitation should,
"happily not now be realized—the pains and cost which may have
"been given to sanitary improvement will in no degree have beeii wasted,
"since undoubtedly such exertions will have borne fruit in preventing
"other disease, and in lessening both the misery and the expense, the
"waste of life and the waste of money, which is now the consequence
"of defective sanitary arrangements." It need scarcely be remarked
that your Officers of Health entirely concur in every principle enunciated,
and in every recommendation contained in the valuable document
from which the above is an extract—more especially as regards the