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Vaccination.—The public vaccination of the Eastern
division of the parish, as shewn by the Public Vaccination
Kegister, is as follows :—
Primary Vaccinations 932
Re-Vaccinations 20
952
The successful working of the Yaccination Act in
this district is attributable in a great measure to the activity
and discretion shewn by the Yaccination Officer.
Sanitary Proceedings. — A very large amount of
sanitary work generally has been performed during the
year in the Eastern division of the parish of Battersea.
There are above 5000 separate houses, factories, warehouses,
and other buildings; the former, of course, largely predominating
in this division of the parish; and as these
are in the majority of cases inhabited by those whose
position in life is not such as to render them at all
instructed in sanitary matters, and whose daily labours
make such constant demands on their time that they have
neither energy nor inclination to trouble themselves therewith;
it is therefore desirable that each house should be
inspected three or four times in every year, more
particularly in the hotter months, when decomposition sets
in most rapidly and Epidemic disease is consequently most
rife. This is an amount of work amply sufficient to occupy
the time of an Inspector of Nuisances in this district alone.
The vigilance exercised by the Sanitary Officers
renders any appeal to magisterial aid very rarely necessary;
as the offending parties in cases of nuisances almost
invariably, when properly advised, shew the greatest
readiness at once to take the necessary steps to abate the
same.
On one occasion during the year a nuisance of the
gravest character was brought before the notice of the