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Small Pox.
During this quarter only one case of small-pox has been attended by
the Medical Officers of the Union; and from the returns of mortality, as
given by the local Registrars, one death only from this disease has been
registered.
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending June 28th, 1873 :—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3689
Houses specially visited 609
Ditto specially re-visited 1218
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 502 premises 258
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 84 premises 45
Summonses heard at Police Courts 2
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 2
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 6
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 200
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of 61
small-pox, fever or scarlet-fever, therein
Articles disinfected consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c 351
Trades' Nuisances abated 2
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 56
Drains in houses improved 49
Dust-bins provided 7
Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired 111
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 28
Water-waste-preventers erected 9
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 12
Animals (Pigs) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 8
Area gratings and cellar flaps repaired 7
The cow-houses in the District, 24, the slaughter-houses, 35, and the
bakehouses 72, 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 have promptly attended to.
Sanitary Improvements effected in the South Side of the District, viz.,
in Peter's Court, Cowpee's Court, Crown Court, Blue Anchor Yard,
and Brownson's Court, Great Alie Street.
On the sanitary improvements effected in the above-named places, Mr.
Batteam states that, by direction of the Medical Officer of Health, he intimated
to the landlord that a certain house in Peter's Court was not only in
itself unfit for habitation, in consequence of its being insufficiently ventilated,
but also by its obstructing the current of air to the adjacent houses,
which belonged to the same landlord, whereby they were rendered unfit for