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93
12, bakehouses 30, locomotives 18, breweries 30, sewer construction
works 48, jam factories 18, gas works 28, miscellaneous
40.
Twenty intimation and five statutory notices were served.
In consequence of the action taken better stoking was obtained
generally, chimneys were heightened in two cases, alterations
were carried out to two boilers, a gas engine was substituted
in another case, and steam sprays were introduced in two
instances.
PUBLIC HOUSE URINALS.
During the year an inspection was made of all the public
house urinals. The Borough contained 106 public houses, and
there were 117 urinals in connection with 101 of the houses.
As a result of the examination nuisances were found to exist in
31 instances, due chiefly to defective flushing arrangements.
These nuisances were remedied after the service of notices.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
One hundred and twenty-three bodies were removed to
the Mortuary and 114 inquests held there. Some of these,
however, were on residents of other districts.
In five instances the bodies were removed from their
homes to await interment owing to the person having died from
an infectious disease.
DISINFECTION.
During the year 1873 rooms have been disinfected by
formalin spray, and 28,135 articles of bedding, clothing, &c.,
were removed from infected homes to the Council's Disinfecting
Station for treatment in the steam disinfector. The figures
for the previous year were 1316 rooms and 27,567 articles.