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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter. -
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspector during the Quarter ending 4th April, 1874 :—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in theofficial returns 3,636
Houses specially visited 170
Ditto specially re visited 690
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 320 premises 207
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 80 premises 28
Summonses heard at Police Courts under Sanitary Act 3
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued lor such use 5
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation discovered 5
Houses in which the rooms or passagess have been whitewashed 116
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
fever, scarlet-fever, therein
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c 51
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 40
Drains in houses improved 60
Cesspools abolished 3
Dust-bins provided 11
Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired 99
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 11
Water-waste-preventers erected 52
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 20
Area gratings and cellar flaps repaired 7
Sanitary Improvements effected in the North Side of the
District, under the inspection of Mr. Wrack.
Adelaide Place, Heneage Street, Spitalfields.
This Court, which contains four houses, of two rooms each, aud was very
imperfectly paved with small pebble stones, and was unprovided with a
dust-bin ; the privy, which is used in common by the inhabitants of the four
houses, was in a dilapidated condition. The houses were also in a very dirty
state, and the only water supply in the Court was drawn from a dirty
uncovered water-butt. The Court, in consequence of notice being served
by the Inspector, has been repaved with new York stones, and a covered
dust-bin has been provided. The old privy has been pulled down and a
new one erected in its stead, which is properly provided with trap and pan,
and the houses have been thoroughly cleansed and repaired. The filthy
water-butt has been removed, and the tenants are now supplied with water
on the constant service by means of a water-waste-preventer.
The Inspector remarks that, upon his visiting the place since the
completion of the work, the occupiers expressed their gratification for the
alterations effected. This clearly shows that the poor fully appreciate
sanitary improvements.
Princes Street, Mile End New Town; Princes Street, Green's Place,
John's Place, and Princes Place, Whitechapel.
In all these places there was a defective and insufficient supply of
water, which was retained in old and dilapidated butts. These butts were