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Special Committee, to cleanse 40 infected dwellings, whose owners were poor,
or for some reason could not be made at once to carry out the necessary works of
purification.
The two temporary Inspectors continued in office until Christmas; at the
time at which their services were discontinued, there was a large amount of
arrears of work arising from inspections and notices served by them which had
not been complied with. Since that time the two permanent Inspectors have
been engaged in working up the arrears as fast as the other routine work of the
department would allow.
Messrs. Boreham and Ilouch, the temporary officers, inspected between three
and four thousand houses; they served 2029 notices, and took out 117
summonses for the abatement of nuisances. At the time of their giving up
sanitary work, there were 1054 places in which notices had been served by them,
calling for works of improvement, which works had either been neglected in
part, or wholly, or else no re-inspections had been made to ascertain whether the
required works had been carried out. There were, moreover, 25 places in
which summonses had been issued, and magistrates' orders obtained, where the
orders had not been complied with.
Owing to the large amount of sanitary work done last year, and the want
of a clerk to tabulate and record it, I am not in a position to report in detail
what was the nature of the sanitary works effected under notices served by the
temporary inspectors. The character of the work effected, may be estimated
with tolerable accuracy, by the following statement of the work carried out
under the inspection of Messrs. Curtis and Hartley, the permanent Inspectors,
because the nature of the works executed was very much the same in the
one case as in the other.
They served 1885 notices; of which, 314 were final, the others being
primary. They took out 95 summonses.
All notices sent out by the Inspectors are previously examined and countersigned
by myself.
Under their inspection the following works were carried out:—
New drains were laid down in ninety-seven houses. New traps were
supplied to eleven hundred drains.
The drains of two hundred and thirteen houses were repaired.
Cesspools were emptied in 55 houses; and 70 cesspools were abolished.
New pans, traps, and water were supplied to five hundred and fifty privies.
Thirteen new water-closets were erected. Water supply was laid on to 84
closets.
One hundred and eighty-six dust-bins were erected.
Two hundred and twenty-nine dust-bins were repaired.
In two hundred and forty-one houses the paving of the cellars or yards was
repaved.
The walls and passages of 526 houses were cleansed and lime-whited or
white-washed.
Over-crowding was abated in 116 cases.
Nine sties of pigs were removed.