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The rapid increase in the population of this parish, together with the new
labours thrown upon the sanitary department, since all the slaughterhouses,
cowhouses, and bakehouses have been placed under the supervision of the
sanitary officers, render systematic house-to-house visitations impossible, with
the existing staff. Their time is fully occupied in investigating places formally
complained of, in inspecting slaughterhouses, cowhouses, bakehouses, mews,
wharves, &c., in inspecting houses where epidemic sickness is known to
prevail, in taking legal proceedings for the abatement of nuisances thus detected,
and in visiting the markets, butchers' shops and sausage-makers to
seize articles unfit for food.
All houses in which nearly every room is occupied by a separate family,
should be inspected once, if not twice, in every year, and should be placed
under the same kind of regulations that are in force in common lodging houses.
It is only in this way that epidemic infectious diseases can be checked in
places, such as Drapers Place, Ashby Street, Henry Street, Mary Place,
Gresse Street, Midford Place, &c. Such an inspection would of itself more
than occupy the whole time of one Inspector in this Parish.
Appended to this Report are the various Statistical Tables referred to above.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS HILLIER.