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1887. It should here be observed that the information
derivable from the inspection of houses, the Record of
Zymotic diseases and the Returns of the Registrar-General
would be of much more practical value if the houses
throughout the sub-district were uniformly numbered.
As yet the name cf a house or very often the name of a
street only in which a death has occurred forms the sole
guide to identification; the latter it need scarcely be
observed, becomes under such circumstances difficult
and occasionally impossible.
Irrespective of the figures in the table referring
to new sewers and drains, water supply, dust-bins, &c.,
connected with the building of new houses, there were
1,355 separate items of procedure by which defects of
houses, drains, water-closets, sinks, water-cisterns, &c.,
were made good, and a variety of nuisances removed.
The disinfection and purification of houses after the
presence of infective diseases were unremittingly pursued;
288 houses, or 96 more than in the previous year were
so dealt with; and in 3 instances only was there a recurrence
of disease, and even in these the intervals
between disinfection and the periods of attack, and other
circumstances were such as to throw doubt upon their
having been really cases of recurrence. Sulphur fumigation
was, as heretofore the disinfecting agent employed,
and no better evidence than that furnished by the foregoing
results could be afforded of its trustworthiness. In
addition to these 734 complaints were brought to the
notice of the Local Committee, and duly attended to.
Several formed the subjects of special reports of which
the most important were the following:—
Nuisance from deposit of gas-lime at Riverbank, the Oziers.
Nuisance at Ford's fat-melting premises, Bendon Valley.
„ Pease's „ Garratt Park.
„ Lathwell's „ Bendon Valley.
,, from discharge of sewage into open ditch, Burntwood Lane.
,, at Harrison, Barber & Co., Horso-slaughterers, Garratt Lane.
,, from a pond and piggery, noar Burntwood House.