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SANITARY WORK PERFORMED DURING THE QUARTER,
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter:—
Number of inspections of houses, as shown in the official returns 8,407
Houses systematically visited and rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 513
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less
than 300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning two children
for one adult 8
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 49
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing
several premises 717
Compulsory orders issued 46
Summonses heard at police courts 4
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been white-washed 340
Dust-bins provided 83
Privies repaired 64
Privies white-washed and cleansed 139
Water-butts or cisterns provided or repaired 93
Drains in houses improved, &c. 105
Cesspools abolished 7
Houses systematically re-visited 138
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 6
Houses closed, the same being unfit for human habitation, the
owners preferring to close them, rather than carry out the
necessary requirements 2
Instances where corpses were kept in inhabited rooms for periods
of 8 and 11 days, respectively 2
Animals, so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 2
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 141
Number of special notices served for registration of 26 houses 19
Nuisances caused by the accumulations of dung and other offensive
matter, and from stopped privies, are very numerous. These are not
recorded in the books of the Inspectors, unless official notices are
served.
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have
forwarded to the police authorities several notices of dangerous structures,
and have also given intimation to them of all the rooms which
they have found on a house-to-house visitation, or on private information,
to be occupied by more than one family. The Act requires that all
rooms, so let, must be registered under the Common Lodging House Act.