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and children under three years of age can be left by their mothers] during
the day while they are engaged at work, with a feeling of confidence that
the little ones will be under proper supervision and carefully attended to ;
and where, by the good sanitary arrangements of the rooms, their health
will be preserved. But such rooms as above described by Mr. Wrack are
simply abominations and ought to be suppressed.
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
29th March, 1879.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 29th March, 1879 :—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2777
Houses specially visited 286
Houses specially re-visited 1001
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 359 premises 143
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 130 premises 53
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 3
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 5
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 134
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 16
Articles disinfected in rooms, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 104
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 19
Drains in houses improved 81
Dust-bins provided 31
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 94
"Water supply provided or improved 20
Nuisances from dung, and other offensive matter removed 21
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 9
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 3
Cesspools abolished 2
The bake-houses are now under the supervision of the Factory Inspectors.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
reat Alie Street.