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The Sanitation of the Year. — Table VI. in the
Appendix, will, as usual, afford every information upon the
sanitary work, &c., executed during the year. There appear
to have been about the same number of houses and premises
inspected during the past year as in the preceding one.
Rather more houses have been supplied with water than
were noted in the previous report, and 1,840 more feet of
new sewers appear to have been constructed over and above
the number recorded in the table of 1874. As formerly,
all the Slaughter and Cow·houses within the Sub·district
were supervised and reported on under the new regulations,
prior to the renewal of licences. It is with much satisfaction
that I am enabled to state that all the proprietors of
these places cheerfully obeyed the new regulations,
and their condition has since been very satisfactory.
A somewhat large number of nuisances of a more or less
objectionable character were dealt with during the year,
most of them being removed or abated without any
great amount of trouble, by either persuasion or
remonstrance, but some few requiring repeated notices and
threatened legal proceedings to cause their entire abolition.
It is satisfactory, however, to find that no case came under
the notice of the Surveyor or myself necessitating a resort
to the Police Court for compulsory orders. The long
pending dispute concerning the drainage of the Priory
Asylum, Roehampton, and the maintenance of a large open
ditch to receive all the excremental matter of those
extensive premises, was, in the latter part of the year taken
cognisance of by a higher tribunal, the Court of Chancery,
and by an injunction obtained, restraining the proprietor
from continuing his objectionable proceedings, the matter
was happily removed from the control of the local authorities
who have not since interfered in any way.
The danger to which the public is sometimes exposed by the
transit of the sick from their homes to hospitals and
infirmaries, when labouring under infectious diseases, is too
well known to need but a passing notice. In one case
strong remonstrance was required in respect to the use of