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As regards the building of a hospital for contagious diseases, the expense
would be most materially diminished, if two or three Districts were to combine
and agree upon the suitable place for such purpose.
To enable the public to derive the utmost possible benefit from the carrying
into effect of the sanitary provisions of the several Acts relating to health,
London must be treated as one District, so that a uniform mode of proceeding
may bo adopted in every District, as regards the lighting, paving, and
cleansing of the streets, the inspection of the houses, and other sanitary
work, and the keeping of a uniform system of accounts.
Sanitary Works Performer during the year 1870.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the year 1870.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 17,475
Houses systematically visited and the rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 106
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 years
of age for one adult, nuisance in each case abated 98
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 94
Houses specially re-visited 3334
Ditto registered by the order of the Board 33
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above houses 109
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 192
Preliminary notices served many of such notices embracing several houses 1682
Compulsory orders issued embracing 447 premises 202
Summonses heard at police courts 12
"Workshops specially visited 74
Ditto overcrowded, orders for abatement given 8
Ditto specially re-visited 64
Copies of the Workshops' Regulation Act distributed 71
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 1105
Ventilation of houses improved 6
Yards of houses paved or the pavement re-paved 659
Cesspools abolished 22
Drains in houses improved 645
Dust bins provided 328
Privies limewashed, cleansed and repaired 657
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 554
Water-waste preventers erected 22
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 39
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 39
Instances where corpses were kept in inhabited rooms for prolonged
periods so as to be a nuisances 4