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Number of rooms found to be overwrowdcd, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning two children for one adult 2
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 11
Preliminary notices served, many of such noticcs embracing several
premises 829
Compulsory orders issued embracing 111 houses and premises 56
Summonses heard at police courts 11
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been white-washed 226
Dust-bins provided 48
Privies white-washed, cleansed and repaired 83
Water-butts or cisterns provided or repaired 109
Water-waste preventer erected 1
Drains in houses improved, &c 89
Cesspools abolished 10
Houses systematically re-visited 222
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 13
Houses closed, the same being unfit for human habitation, the owners
preferring' to close them, rather than carry out the necessary
requirements 11
Instances where corpses were kept in inhabited rooms for prolonged
periods so as to be a nuisance 2
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 4
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 110
Number of special notices served for the registration of 83 houses 83
Houses registered by order of the Board 21
Certificates and copies prepared thereof for the registration of the
above houses 63
Slaughter-houses specially visited 35
Cow-houses ditto 24
Cows kept in an unlicensed shed removed 5
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &e., repaired 11
Workshops specially visited 38
Bitto overcrowded 4
Ditto specially revisited 114
Nuisances caused by the accumulations of dung and other offensive
matter, and from stopped privies, are very numerous. These arc 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.