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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending 4th July, 1874:—
Number of inspections of houses as shewn in the official returns 3,402
Houses specially visited 192
Ditto specially re-visited 708
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 354 premises 217.
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 121 premises 49
Summonses heard at Police Courts under Sanitary Act 5
Ditto ditto Adulteration of Food Act 1
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued lor such use 4
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation discovered and abated 18
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 187
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
fever, and scarlet-fever, therein 21
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c 40
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 36
Drains in houses improved 70
Cesspools abolished 2
Dust-bins provided 22
Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired 87
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 7
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 20
Area gratings and cellar flaps repaired 3
The cow-houses in the District, 24, the slaughter-houses, 35, and the
bakehouses, 71 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 North Side of the
District, under the inspection of Mr. Wrack.
Spitalfields Market.
The West side of the Market which was in a most filthy and offensive
state, arising from defective drainage and the want of a urinal, has, in
consequence of notice served upon the Owner, been properly drained into
the sewer, and a urinal, provided with a water supply, erected for the convenience
of persons frequenting the Market. Upon the recommendation
of the Medical Officer, the Board constructed a sewer in West Street, to
enable the owner of the Market to effectually carry out the work.
School Room Overcrowded.
Upon inspecting the houses in Green Dragon Yard, Whitechapel, the
Inspector found the ground floor room of No. 6 to be occupied as a School