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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 April 3rd, 1875:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3187
Houses specially visited 155
Ditto specially re-visited 620
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 253 premises 223
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 72 premises 42
Summonses heard at Police Courts under Sanitary Act 2
Ditto under the Adulteration of Food Act 1
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation discovered 5
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 113
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
fever and scarlet-fever therein 6
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 0
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 45
Drains in houses improved 65
Cesspools abolished 0
Dust-bins provided 5
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 114
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 13
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 15
Area grating, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 7
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 2
The cow-houses in the District, 25, and the slaughter-houses 33 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.
Adulteration of Pood Act.
Pour samples of milk were purchased by the Sanitary Inspector for the
north side of the District, and were submitted to the analyst, Dr. Tidy, for
analysis. One of the samples was found to be adulterated with water, and
the defendants (who were brothers) were summoned, and a fine of forty
shillings and costs was inflicted.
Nuisance arising from keeping Pigs.
The Inspector has upon several occasions served notice on a person
residing at No. 12, Hunt Street, Mile End New Town, for keeping pigs in
the small back yard of the house, thereby causing the place to be in a filthy
condition, and a nuisance to the neighbourhood.
The house in question was occupied by four families; and several cases
of fever having occurred there and in the houses adjoining, the Sanitary
Inspector informed the agent of the property of the facts above-mentioned,
who visited the premises with the Inspector, and ordered the tenant to pull