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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
27th Septembee, 1879.
The following return shows the amount of work done by tho Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 27th September, 1879:—
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2341
Houses specially visited 452
Houses specially re-visited 1356
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 303 premises 178
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 56 premises 18
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Pood, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 4
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 4
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 194
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 93
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 1305
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 33
Drains in houses improved 55
Dust-bins provided 6
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 68
Water supply provided or improved 10
Nuisances from dung, and other offensive matter removed 30
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 4
Animals, (swine and fowls) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 25
Cesspools abolished 1
The Cow-houses in the District, 25 in number, and the Slaughterhouses,
14, 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.