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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter euded
30th June, 1877.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 30th June, 1877:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2449
Houses specially visited 386
Houses specially re-visited 965
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 367 premises 214
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 130 premises 60
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 3
,, ,, ,, Adulteration Act 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 1
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 0
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 129
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 41
Articles disinfected in rooms, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 410
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 31
Drains in houses improved 69
Dust-bins provided 15
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 127
"Water supply provided or improved 10
Nuisances from dung, and other offensive matter removed 24
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &e., repaired 1
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 6
Cesspools abolished 1
The cow-houses in the District, 30 in number, and the slaughter-houses14,
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.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.