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Summary of Sanitary Proceedings.— A very large
amount of sanitary work of all kinds has been carried out
during the year. Nearly four thousand (3971) inspections
have been made by the Inspector of Nuisances, W.
Blackmore, under the superintendence of the Surveyor,
Mr. Buckham. whom the Medical Officers have to thank
for the assistance he has rendered them on all occasions,
and the promptitude with which he has always attended
to their requests.
Notices have been served to abate nuisances in a great
number of cases, and in but very few has it been found
necessary to call upon the magistrate to enforce the
execut ion of necessary works. In 116 cases fumigations and
disinfections of houses after disease have been executed,
clothes and bedding have been replaced when destroyed
by medical order after infectious disease, to the value of
£28. Of fish unfit for food the large quantity of 9¼ cwt.
has been destroyed, a quantity capable of causing a great
amount of illness if consumed. Of fruit unfit for food 3
cwt. has been similarly treated.
Numerous complaints were made during the year of the
nuisances arising from pig-keeping, more especially in
Latchmere-grove and the York-road. The Medical Officer
of Health made a thorough inspection of these premises,
and found that, although in many cases the pigs were
properly attended to, and the styes clean, in others the
complaints were well grounded. The most objectionable
practice which prevailed among the pig-keepers was that
of accumulating large quantities of food in an advanced
stage of decomposition.
Proceedings were taken before the Police Magistrate
in six of the more serious cases, and after evidence
given by the Medical Officer, in three cases the keeping
of pigs was ordered to be wholly discontinued, and in