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Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 4275
Houses systematically visited and the rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 32
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 11
years of age for one adult; nuisance in each case abated
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 10
Houses specially visited 454
Ditto specially re-visited 908
Ditto registered by order of the Board 18
Certificates and copies of same prepared for the registration of the
above houses 36
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 60
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 477
Compulsory orders issued embracing 98 premises 37
Summonses heard at police courts 3
Workshops specially visited 15
Ditto specially re-visited 21
Copies of the Workshops' Regulation Act distributed 17
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 281
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of 41
small-pox therein,
Ventilation of houses improved 15
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 71
Drains in houses improved 102
Dust bins provided 17
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 141
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 34
Water-waste preventers erected 25
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 4
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 11
Cesspools abolished 1
The cow-houses in the District, 24, the slaughter-houses, 39, and the
Bakehouses, 83, 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.
Small-Pox.
In my Report for the Quarter ending 31st December, 1870, I drew
attention to the desirability of having a proper disinfecting apparatus erected
in this District where clothing, bedding, and all articles likely to retain
infection should be at once removed and submitted to a temperature of 250°;
which amount of heat, according to a Memorandum on Disinfection prepared
by Mr. Simon, the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, and published in