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Proceedings under Nuisances Removal Act.
From March 25th, 1864, to March 25th, 1865.
Total number of complaints made 395
Notices prepared and served 327
Summonses at Police Court 33
Magistrates orders made 21
Works done under summonses without orders 12
Rooms cleansed and whitewashed 372
Staircases and passages cleansed and whitewashed 57
Drains, new pipe laid under Inspector's supervision, feet 560
„ repaired 32
,, cleansed only 49
„ trapped 27
,, entered into sewer 11
Sinks trapped 38
Cesspools emptied 27
„ abolished 3
Privies panned, trapped, and supplied with water 25
„ cleansed 46
,, dilapidated, abolished 2
„ new erected 3
Houses supplied with water 7
Ventilation of houses improved 15
Yards repaved, or repaired 18
Pigs and Cows removed 43
New dung pits erected 7
New dust bins erected 12
Accumulations of dung, stagnant water, animal and other offensive
matter, removed 106
Nuisances removed at the request of Inspector by Letters sent to
owners 39
Cases in which Inspector could not interfere 15
„ no orders made 7
„ referred to Surveyor 5
Unnecessary complaints
Bake-houses under Inspector's constant supervision 98
„ alterations and works done to make them comformable,
to Act of Parliament 64
Slaughter-houses licensed and under constant Inspection 54
Cow-houses do. do. do. 53
Keeping cows in an unlicensed cow-house, summoned and fined 1
Using an unlicensed slaughter-house, summoned and fined 1
A great many nuisances have been removed without being entered ill the
Inspector's book, or any necessity for legal steps being taken.
GILES LOVETT,
Inspector.