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poorer houses of the City, and of these 3,368 have
been visits to the common lodging houses. These
inspections have resulted in the issuing of 2,331
orders for sanitary improvement, all of which are
detailed in the table referred to; and the landlords
of 59 houses have been summoned before the
justices during the year for neglecting to perform
the sanitary work required of them, and they have
either completed the work before the time of
hearing the summonses, and have been charged with
the costs thereof, or they have been fined. There
have been also 23 convictions at the justice room
and at the Old Bailey, of persons who have sent
unwholesome meat to the City markets for sale as
human food, and the penalties have ranged from
£5 and costs, to twelve months' imprisonment and
a fine of £50.
Lastly, the Meteorology of the year, from observations
at Guildhall, are recorded in Table
No. VI. of the Appendix; and it will be observed
that the temperature of the several months of the
year has been remarkably variable; even in the
autumn of last year, which was the most equable
of all the quarters, the range of temperature in
each of the three months was 17 to 28 degrees of
Fahrenheit—the mean temperature of October
being 52 degrees, of November 44 degrees, and of
December 41 degrees; but the close of the year