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Houses systematically visited and rooms measured to ascertain their
cubic capacity 40
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning two children for one adult 7
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 17
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several
premises 330
Compulsory orders issued embracing 111 houses and premises 72
Summonses heard at police courts 5
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been white-washed 160
Dust-bins provided 48
Privies white-washed, cleansed, and repaired 92
Water-butts or cisterns provided or repaired 83
Water-waste preventers erected 3
Drains in houses improved, &c 113
Houses systematically re-visited 134
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 3
Instances where corpses were kept in inhabited rooms for prolonged
periods so as to be a nuisance 1
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 1
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 100
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 48
Houses registered by order of the Board 18
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above houses 36
Bake-houses specially visited 76
Slaughter-houses ditto 35
Cow-houses ditto 24
Cows kept in 2 unlicensed sheds, removed 4
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 39
Workshops specially visited 3
Ditto overcrowded 1
Ditto specially revisited 15
Trades nuisances abated 1
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 ah 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,
*The amended Metropolitan Building Act, 1869, which came into operation on the
1st Octobel, transfers the power of the Commissioners of Police over dangerous structures
to the Metropolitan Board of Works.