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8
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending 2nd July, 1870,
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 4624
Houses systematically visited and the rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 36
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 12
years of age for one adult
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 20
Houses specially visited 352
Houses specially revisited 1560
Ditto registered by order of the Board 14
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above houses 28
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 79
Preliminary notices served many of such notices embracing several houses 549
Compulsory orders issued embracing 151 premises 69
Summonses heard at police courts 1
Workshops specially visited 11
Ditto overcrowded 4
Ditto specially re-visited 13
Copies of the Workshops' Regulation Act distributed 11
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 381
Ventilation of houses improved 2
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 253
Drains in houses improved 232
Dust bins provided 185
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 199
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 234
Water-waste preventers erected 7
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 10
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 14
Instances where corpses were kept in inhabited rooms for prolonged 3
periods so as to be a nuisance
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance removed 1
Dung and other offensive matter removed 25
Trades nuisances abated 2
The cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 38 in
number, have been visited during the quarter.
Nuisances, caused by the accumulation 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.