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proper manner, thereby relieving himself from the inconvenience and
expense of being summoned for a nuisance.
The poor people are now better acquainted with the construction of
closets and soil-pans, so that the complaints of these conveniences being
stopped, which were formerly very frequent, are now of comparatively
rare occurrence.
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending 1st July, 1871:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3645
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 7
years of age for one adult; nuisance in each case abated
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 10
Houses specially visited 265
Ditto specially re-visited 750
Ditto registered by order of the Board 8
Certificates and copies of same prepared for the registration of the
above houses
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 9
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 291
Compulsory orders issued, embracing- 69 premises 33
Summonses heard at police courts 4
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 198
Eooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
small-pox therein
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 38
Drains in houses improved 78
Dustbins provided 14
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 84
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 19
Water-waste preventers erected 27
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 4
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 13
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 4
Cesspools abolished 2
The cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 39, in
number, have been visited during the Quarter.
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous structures,
which notices the Metropolitan Board has promptly attended to
Small Pox.
The deaths from small-pox registered in this District for the Quarter
ending 1st July, 1871, have been 42. For the previous Quarter they were
83, and for that ending December 30th, 1870, they were 50. To these
numbers there must be added the deaths of those patients belonging to this