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Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
fever and scarlet-fever therein 8
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c 42
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 14
Drains in houses improved 37
Cesspools abolished 0
Dust-bins provided 9
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 86
"Water supply provided or improved 66
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 22
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 2
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 1
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 8
The cow-houses in the District, 26 in number, and the slaughter-houses,
11, have been visited during the Quarter.
Pigs kept in a Kitchen at No. 37, Bbick Lane, Spitalfields.
Mr. Wrack having received notice that pigs were kept in the
kitchen of a house in Brick Lane, visited the premises, and found that
several pigs were being kept there. The kitchen had a boarded floor, which
was in a wet and filthy condition, and the smell arising from the place was
most sickening. On notice being served, and intimation given to the owner
of the pigs that a summons would be taken out, the pigs were speedily
removed. I may here remark that legal proceedings, as regards the keeping
of pigs in the District, are always taken under the 57th George III.,
chapter 29, better known as Michael Angelo Taylor's Act, and hitherto with
success.
Fever Cases in the Disteict.
About the middle of December last I received intimation that several
cases of fever had been admitted into the Fever Hospital at Homerton from
this District. As only 8 cases of fever have been recorded in the books of
the Medical Officers of the Union during the seven weeks ending on the
25th December, I applied for information respecting the prevalence of this
disease to Mr. Ilott, the resident Medical Officer of the Workhouse, who
stated that, within the period of 11 weeks, viz.: from the 14th October to
the 29th December, 1875, no less than 9 cases of fever were sent from the
Workhouse to the Homerton Fever Hospital, of persons who had been
removed into that Institution from some of the registered common lodginghouses
in Flower-and-Dean Street, situated on the north side of the District,
and six from some of the other registered common lodging-houses also
situated on the north side of the District.
From the subjoined return, which has been prepared by Mr. Ilott, it
appears that the patients were retained in the Workhouse, with one exception,
for a period varying from one to eight days, from which we may