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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
28th September, 1878.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 28th Sept., 1878:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2621
Houses specially visited 293
Houses specially re-visited 935
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 226 premises 144
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 106 premises 49
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 2
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 4
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 117
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 12
Articles disinfected in rooms, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 248
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 27
Drains in houses improved 32
Dust-bins provided 11
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 73
"Water supply provided or improved 7
Nuisances from dung, and other offensive matter removed 25
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 5
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 5
Cesspools abolished 0
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.