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Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 298 premises 209
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 74 premises 48
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
Ditto ditto Adulteration of Food Act. 1
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 1
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 13
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 74
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of
fever, and scarlet-fever, therein 19
Ventilation of houses improved 20
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 35
Trades' Nuisances abated 0
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 29
Drains in houses improved 66
Cesspools abolished 0
Dust-bins provided 6
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 118
Water-supply provided or improved 7
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 48
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 21
The cow-houses in the District, 26 in number, and the slaughter-houses,
14, and the bake-houses, 76 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.
On the 1st of May, 1876, Mr. Battram reported to the Board that he
had taken out two summonses which were heard on the preceding Friday, at
Worship Street, Police Court; one of which was against the owner of Nos.
3 and 4, Sugar Loaf Court, and No. 51, Wentworth Street, abutting upon
the yards of the said two houses, for the defective drainage, and for the
dilapidated and filthy condition of the several houses, so as to render them
unfit for habitation. The Magistrate, on hearing the case, ordered the houses
to be closed forthwith. The other summons which was heard on the same
day, was against the owner of a rag store in Sugar Loaf Court, for permitting
to remain on his premises a very large accumulation of filthy and
offensive rags, amounting to several tons; the same being a nuisance and
injurious to health. In this case the Magistrate made an order for the
removal of the accumulation of the filthy material within twenty-one days.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street. JOHN LIDDLE.