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culars of which are recorded in table No. VIII. I have shown in this table
the number of deaths which have occurred annually in this district from
epidemic diseases since the year 1858; and in the following table No. IX. I
have recorded the number of cases of the same diseases which have been
attended by the Medical Officers of the Union. From both these tables it
appears that the deaths from, and cases of, these diseases are less in number
than in any of the preceding years.
Sanitary Works Performed during the year 1872.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 13,910
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 39
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 33
Houses specially visited 917
Houses specially re-visited 2929
Ditto registered by order of the Board 1
Certificates and copies prepared for the registration of the above
houses 2
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 3
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 1488 premises 976
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 326 premises 181
Summonses heard at police courts 22
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 714
Ventilation of houses improved 7
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 246
Cesspools abolished 7
Drains in houses improved 275
Dust bins provided 81
Privies limewashed, cleansed and repaired 462
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 97
Water-waste preventers erected 21
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 154
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 13
Animals, so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 3
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 77
The cow-houses in the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 39 in
number, have been visited four times during the year.
The bake-houses (74 in number) have been twice specially visited during
the same period.
Relapsing Fever.
Information having been recently circulated, through the medium of the
public press, that several cases of relapsing, or famine fever, have occurred
in the Southern Districts of London, and in Manchester, it is probable
that this disease will not be confined to those localities where it now
prevails; but owing to its contagious nature may extend to other parts of
the metropolis, and to other districts in the Country. It is therefore of
the utmost importance that, where practicable, isolated temporary buildings
should be erected for the reception of cases of this disease in every
District, and also that the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals should be made