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Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 12
Houses specially visited 541
Houses specially re-visited 2253
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
fever, and scarlet-fever, therein 23
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c 77
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 1052 premises 708
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 342 premises 149
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 10
Ditto ditto Adulteration of Food Act. 1
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 552
Ventilation of houses improved 0
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 244
Cesspools abolished 2
Drains in houses improved 272
Dust-bins 49
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 464
Water-supply provided or improved 135
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 23
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 7
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 63
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 8
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 twice visited during the
year.
The total number of slaughter-houses in the District, since the last
licensing day, is 14.
The number of slaughter-houses before the last licensing day was 32.
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, not a single complaint has been entered therein during the last three
years.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street. JOHN LIDDLE.