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SANITARY Works RERFORMED DURING THE YEAR 1876.
Number of inspections of houses, as shown in the official returns 10,499
Number of rooms found to be over-crowded, the space being less
than 300 cubic feet for each person—nuisance in each case abated 256
Houses specially visited 881
,, re-visited 2437
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
fever and scarlet-fever therein 65
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 396
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 1276 premises 751
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 495 premises 209
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 6
,, ,, ,, Adulteration of Food Act 4
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 520
Yentilation of houses improved 20
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 191
Cesspools abolished 0
Drains in houses improved 326
Dust-bins 62
Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired 522
Water-supply provided or improved 50
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 42
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 5
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 100
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 2
The total number of slaughter-houses in the District is 14.
The cow-houses in the District, 26 in number, and the slaughter-houses,
have been visited four times during the year.
The bake-houses, 71 in number, have been visited twice during the
year.
The efficient manner in which the Inspectors have performed their duty
is shown by the fact that, although there is a public complaint-book in the
Office, only two complaints have been entered therein during the last three
years.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.