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The chief meteorological features were a mild winter, an average summer,
and a deficiency of rain, with an increase in the daily range of temperature,
and more than an average horizontal movement of the air.
The only circumstance which can be supposed to have favoured the prevalence
of the Zymotic Diseases was the dryness and deficiency of rain.
SANITARY "WORKS.
During the year which ended on the 31st March, 1864, the following improvements
were carried out by order of the Sanitary Committee, under my
superintendence and that of the Inspectors:—
New drains were constructed in 98 houses.
New traps were furnished to 393 drains.
The drainage was improved in 86 houses.
Cesspools emptied, filled up, and water closets supplied in 47 houses.
47 cesspools were emptied.
New pans, traps, and water supplied to 151 closets.
14 new water closets erected,
Water laid on to 87 closets.
43 new dust-bins were erected.
21 old dust-bins were repaired.
The paving of yards and cellars improved in 141 houses.
Water supplied to 27 houses, previously without water.
135 houses were cleansed and whitewashed.
Overcrowding was abated in 21 houses.
Pigs removed from 15 places.
Heaps of manure removed from wharves, mews, &c., in 210 instances.
Other nuisances, not named above, were removed to the number of 19.
The Inspectors report, that in carrying out these improvements, 5357 inspections
were made, slaughterhouses visited 814 times, cowhouses 1027 times,
and the markets 416 times.
Preliminary notices were issued to the number of 584, secondary notices to the
number of 39.
In consequence of notices being neglected, 21 summonses were taken out
before the Police Magistrates.
There have been seized and destroyed, as unfit for food, 49 cod fish, 32 pads
of plaice, 3½ bushel of perriwinkles, 6 pads of mackerel, 4 trucks of soles, 1
salmon and 5 pieces of salmon, 1 bushel of shrimps, 8 boxes and 6 barrels of
herrings, 1 piece of pork, 3 breasts of mutton, 1 flank of beef, 43 ostend rabbits,
5 fowls, 1 goose, and half a barrel of salt fish, besides a number of rotten
oranges, apples, strawberries, cocoanuts, and plums.
The only new sewerage constructed by the Vestry during the year ending
31st March, was 301 feet in James Street, Camden Town, 225 feet in
Wcedington Street, 50 feet in Murray Street, and 632 feet in Winchester Street.