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10
SANITARY WORKS.
The following measures have been carried out under the immediate supervision
of myself and the Sanitary Inspectors:—
New drainage has been supplied to 163 houses.
New traps have been applied to 618 drains.
The drainage of 123 other houses has been improved.
In 198 cases cesspools have been emptied, filled in, and trapped water
closets provided.
New pans, traps, and water supply have been furnished to 220 closets,
24 new water closets have been erected.
30 new dust bins have been put up.
32 dust bins have been repaired.
The yards or cellars of 50 houses have been paved.
Water supply has been furnished to 26 houses.
91 houses have been cleansed and lime-washed.
In 5 houses overcrowding has been abated.
43 lots of pigs have been removed.
23 cow sheds have been improved.
To effect these improvements, 458 primary and 34 final notices have been
issued. In 27 instances the notices were ineffectual, and summonses were
taken out and heard before the Police Magistrates, in almost every case with
satisfactory results. The only cases in which difficulty occurred were those
in which the ownership was disputed.
The complaints entered on the books of the Sanitary Department numbered
704.
The slaughter-houses and cow-sheds have been periodically visited, 540
visits having been paid to cow-sheds, and 508 to slaughter-houses.
The sausage shops, tripe-boiling, fish-frying shops, as well as cat's meat
shops, and the markets in Somers Town, Camden Town, and Hampstead Road,
have been regularly visited.
There have been seized, and condemned as unfit for human food, large
quantities offish, including 31 pads of mackerel, 4 pads of soles, 65 lobsters,
54 crabs, 15 pads of plaice, and 15 tubs of herrings; also 340 fowls, rabbits
in very large numbers, grouse and geese, and 6 joints of meat; also a quantity
of rotten plums, peaches, and oranges.
Owing to the vigilance of- the Inspectors, a much smaller quantity of
unwholesome meat, fish, and poultry is exposed for sale now, than in former
times before the Act was brought into operation. Much more good is done
in this way by prevention, than can be at all estimated by the amount actually
seized.
There are many streets in the Parish where there are open cesspools to all