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Number of Inspections of Houses and of Orders
issued for Sanitary Improvement in the City of
London in each of the last eleven years:—
Years. Houses Inspected. Orders issued.
1856 5,4011,215
1857 5,924 2,031
1858 7,786 1,721
1859 9,587 1,984
1860 9,448 2,472
1861 9,425 2,518
1862 8,693 2,455
1863 9,089 2,443
1864 10,700 3,179
1865 11,008 2,331
1866 12,213 3,068
Yearly average 9,025 2,311
In the year 1856 the sanitary work of the City
was done by the six Inspectors of Pavements, who
devoted a comparatively small portion of their
time to this work, but finding, after nearly two
years' experience, that the common lodging-houses
of the City were not visited as often as necessary,
that but few of them were registered, as your Act
of Parliament required, that none of them were
subject to such rules and regulations as were needful
for their proper sanitary condition, and that indecent