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A Mortuary required for this District.
The question of erecting a Mortuary has been on more than one
occasion discussed by your Board, and I have no doubt that one would
long ago have been erected had the Board possessed the power of obtaining
land compulsorily for that purpose.
If the Board determine to erect a Mortuary, I would recommend
that it should be built not only with architectural taste, but that it should
possess conveniences for making post-mortem examinations, and for the holding
of inquests, which are now, for the most part, held at public houses.
Sanitary "Works Performed during the Quarter.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ending July 1st, 1876.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2513
Houses specially visited 206
Houses specially re-visited 618
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 301 premises 192
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 60 premises 36
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 4
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 1
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 240
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 120
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
fever and scarlet-fever therein 7
Articles disinfected in rooms, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 50
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 30
Drains in houses improved 90
Dust-bins provided 9
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 137
Water supply provided or improved 11
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 15
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 9