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REPORT OF SANITARY IN8PECTOR
For the year ending 31st December, 1896.
Visits to ensure continued isolation of infectious patients 760
Rooms, Bedding, &c., disinfected 139
Board school rooms, lavatories, and clothes racks disinfected 5
Disinfectantssupplied(exclusiveot supplies from the office) bots. 287
Number of dwellings inspected 238
Found insanitary 225
House drains and sanitary fittings tested (dwellings) 126
House drains taken up and re-constructed t32
Visits to ascertain whether notices were being complied
with, and to inspect sanitary work in progress 730
Soil pipes and drains provided with vent pipes 107
Soil pipes taken outside house-walls 6
Scullery waste pipes disconnected from soil drains and made
to discharge in the open air over trapped gulleys 30
Rain water pipes disconnected from soil drains (dwellings) 11
Insanitary closets replaced by sanitary apparatus 81
Water-waste preventers fixed for flushing closets 33
Defective roofs made good 8
Defective guttering replaced or repaired (dwellings) 8
Dilapidated walls, ceilings, &c., repaired (dwellings) 39
Complaints registered 129
Notices served (supplemented by letters and personal
interviews with owners or agents) 146
Additional closets provided in connection with laundries
under the Workshop and Factories Act, 1896 10
Sanitary improvements ordered by Inspector of Nuisances
(Acton) 20
Schools inspected 11