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SANITARY WORK.
The following is the Report of the Sanitary Inspector:—
Houses inspected 2179
Houses disinfected, walls stripped, and lime
whitened 358
Orders by notices and letters served on owners and
occupiers 1414
Complaints received 467
Nuisances caused by fish offal, manure and other
refuse 36
Defective drains remedied 250
Sink drains and rain pipes made to discharge over
properly trapped gullies 152
Yard-gullies supplied, and defective gullies remedied 307
Ventilating shafts to soil-pipes 142
Flushing cisterns supplied to w.c.'s with 1£ inch
flushing pipes 38
Flushing cisterns repaired 163
W.c's. in defective state—new traps and pans, traps
concreted to top 593
Pan-closets with iron containers and leaden D-traps
replaced by approved arrangements 7
Defective soil pipes 32
Intercepting syphons and manholes provided between
house-drains and sewer 20
Houses with defective roofs and general insanitary
and filthy condition repaired and cleansed 84
Drains tested 720
Houses entirely re-drained 20
Stagnant water under dwellings 11
Houses without water supplied by the East London
service 100
Overcrowding 20
Wells closed 2
Animals kept in an insanitary state 17
Pig-keep nuisance abated 3
Smoke nuisance abated 2
Houses closed 2
COWSHEDS AND DAIRIES ACT.
The number of cowsheds in the parish is 19, and they have been
periodically examined.