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charged ivory points can be purchased at a moderate rate. A
station, moreover, has been established by a private medical
practitioner in the Marylebone Road, for the supply of calf lymph,
and where persons can be vaccinated direct from the calf.
SANITARY WORK.
Tables VI and VI a (Appendix) summarise the chief items of
Work done by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year. A not
inconsiderable part of their work, however, scarcely admits of
tabulation, many sanitary amendments being carried out at their
instance, and under their supervision, without recourse to forms
which take up time, and are, indeed, unnecessary when an owner
or occupier is willing to follow good advice. The statement as to
the "number of houses inspected" applies to primary inspections
only. When a nuisance is found to exist and it is not at once
abated, repeated inspections may be required—as many us six,
should it become necessary to take out a summons. In cases of
infectious disease treated at home under circumstances that may
endanger the spread of disease, through the omission of proper
precautions, numerous visits are paid to the infected house, for
which it has not been customary, until lately, to take credit. The
total of "sanitary orders" issued does not include any of the cases
in which work has been done by the owner or occupier at the
request of the Inspector.
During the last four years the abatement of nuisances has been
accelerated by the plan of serving "preliminary notices" upon the
parties liable, immediately on discovery. These notices are generally
as effectual as the more formal notice which, previously, it
had been the rule to serve only after the nuisance had been
reported to the Works, Sanitaiy, and General Purposes Committee,
and upon confirmation by your Vestry of the recommendation of
the Committee. When the notice is not complied with, recourse
is had to a summons before a magistrate, a step which, when
necessary, should always be taken with the least possible delay.
In a previous Report I had to observe that "the difficulties
which beset legal proceedings, i.e., at the Police Court, tend to
cool the ardour of Sanitaiy Inspectors in having recourse to