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The number of infants who died under five years of age amounts to
684, or about 38 per cent. of the total deaths.
During the year which ended March 25th, 1864, the following improvements
were carried out, and proceedings taken under the Nuisance
Removal Act:—
Proceedings under Nuisance Removal Act.
Total number of complaints made 471
Notices prepared and served 366
Summonses at Police Court 54
Magistrates orders made 33
Works done under summonses without orders 20
Drains, new pipe laid under Inspector's supervision, foot 845
„ repaired 48
„ cleansed only 34
„ trapped 19
„ entered into sewer 14
Sinks trapped 22
Privies cleansed and repaired 27
„ panned, trapped, and supplied with water 35
,, dilapidated, abolished 5
„ new ones erected 4
Cesspools emptied 13
,, new ones made where there are no sewers 4
„ abolished 7
Houses supplied with water 3
Dust bins or ash pits erected 23
Dung pits erected 15
Yards and stables repaved, or paving repaired 17
Dilapidated houses put in habitable condition 9
Rooms cleansed and whitewashed 494
Staircases and passages ,, 37
Ventilation of houses improved 15
Accumulations of dung, stagnant water, animal and other offensive
matter, removed 117
Letters sent to owners requesting abatement of nuisances, about 50
Cases in which animals kept offensively have been removed 13
„ Inspector could not interfere 19
„ no orders made, for want of sewers 31
„ no orders made 9
„ referred to Surveyor 7
Unnecessary complaints 32
Notices served on pig-keepers 80
„ butchers for licensing slaughter-houses 63
„ cow-keepers for licensing cow-houses 59
Slaughter-houses licensed and under constant supervision 54
Cow-houses do. do. do. 52
Bake-houses do. do. do. 94
In addition to the above, great numbers of nuisances have been abated
at the request of the Inspector, without being entered in the Report
Book, or any legal proceedings being taken.