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Sanitary Works Performed during the year 1871.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the year 1871.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official return 15,238
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 years of age for one adult, nuisance in each case abated 61
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 54
Houses specially visited 1388
Houses specially re-visited 3382
Houses specially visited at night 36
Ditto registered by the order of the Board 29
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above
houses 58
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 94
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several
houses 1299
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 405 premises 169
Summonses heard at police courts 12
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 910
Ventilation of houses improved 21
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 231
Cesspool abolished 1
Drains in houses improved 329
Dust bins provided 46
Privies limewashed, cleansed and repaired 496
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 149
Water-waste preventers erected 62
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c. repaired 21
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 12
Animals, so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 29
Nuisances from Dung and other offensive matter removed 69
The Cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 38 in
number, have been visited four times during the year.
The bake-houses (83 iu number) have been twice specially visited during
the same period.
A return was furnished by the Inspectors, in accordance with the in- ,
structions of the Committee of Works, on the 11th January, 1872, with
reference to the number of rooms which have been disinfected, and the
number of articles conveyed to the Stone Yard, and there disinfected, in
the apparatus erected for that purpose. The number of rooms disinfected
during the past year is 145. The number of articles disinfected is 1281, viz.
64 beds, 73 mattresses, 125 pillows, 71 bolsters, 240 blankets, 125 sheets,
68 counterpanes, and 515 sundry other articles.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street. JOHN LIDDLE.