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12,213 inspections of houses, of which 3,271 have
been inspections of the registered common lodginghouses.
These have resulted in the issuing of
3,068 orders for sanitary improvement—comprising
4,225 separate items; of which 2,080 were for
cleansing and lime-whiting the interiors of houses,
845 for cleansing and repairing closets, 588 for
amending the water supply and cleansing butts
and cisterns, 426 for repairing and trapping sinks
and drains, 206 for removing dust and other refuse,
12 for abolishing cesspools, and 12 for abating
smoke nuisances. All these numbers are greatly
in excess of the average; and I am bound to state
that your inspectors have worked during the
anxious period of the last year with unusual
diligence. I have already reported to you on the
necessity for augmenting the sanitary staff of the
City, partly because of the gradual development of
sanitary work, but chiefly on account of increased
prospective duties from the Sanitary Act of
1866.
The rate at which the sanitary work has been
increasing since the year 1855, when I was elected
your Medical Officer of Health, is shown in the
following table.
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