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Sanitary
Proceedings.
Table XT. in the Summary gives the usual
information in regard to the different kinds
of sanitary work carried on during the year, i here has
been a great increase in the amount of work done as
compared with the preceding year. 3,651 houses were
inspected as compared with 2,686 during the year 1888.
14 houses were disinfected after infectious diseases, and
in no case did the disease recur after disinfection. All
the Sanitary work was carried out without the necessity
of compulsory magisterial orders.
House
Refuse.
The disposal of house refuse is becoming
every year a more pressing question in
ban neighbourhoods. Hitherto authorities have in most
cases been satisfied if they have been able, economically,
to have it carted away and deposited beyond their own borders,
regardless of the nuisance it may possibly create to
their immediate neighbours. We have ourselves suffered
from the operation of this primitive plan. The time has
come when greater care ought to be exercised in this
respect. Two reasonable plans suggested themselves for
the solution of the question :
I. The destruction by fire of all the organic and
injurious part of the refuse.
II. The deposit of it upon some piece of land
cured for the purpose, and sufficiently removed
from all inhabited districts, to be no nuisance
or source of danger.
The first is doubtless the more scientific nnthod, but
there are many practical difficulties to be got over in
the carrying of it out in practice. The best method may
vary with different districts, depending upon the situation
of the district, the density and extent of the population,
and the facilities at hand for the disposal of the refuse.
I understand Kensington Vestry has bough!: a piece of