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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 July 3rd, 1875:-
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2663
Houses specially visited 233
Ditto specially re-visited 754
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 397 premises 179
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 147 premises 46
Summonses heard at Police Courts under Sanitary Act 2
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation discovered and abated 5
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 146
Room3 disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
fever and scarlet-fever therein 4
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 17
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 24
Drains in houses improved 61
Cesspools abolished 1
Dust-bins provided 28
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 106
Water supply provided or improved 36
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 16
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 7
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 3
The cow-houses in the District, 25, and the slaughter-houses 32 in
number, have been visited during the quarter.
Water Supply.
Since my last quarterly report, the New River Company have supplied
Rose Court, Blue Anchor Yard, consisting of six houses, with water on the
constant service. All the Courts in that locality are now supplied on the
constant service, with the exception of Hairbrain Court, which is held by
two owners; and if the Company would use their powers, this Court would
likewise be so supplied.
Unhealthy Localities.
It will be seen, on referring to page 4, that the average rate of mortality
of children under one year of ago is greater both in this quarter and in the
corresponding quarter of the previous year in the Whitechapel North sub
district than in any of the other sub-districts. The fact of so large a proportion
of infantile mortality speaks very unfavorably of the sanitary condition
of that particular locality, for a high rate of mortality among young
children is generally found to co-exist with overcrowding and defective
ventilation; and this opinion appears to be borne out in the sub-district of