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The houses in which overcrowding exists are those occupied by
the poorer class of foreigners who are to be found in all parts of the
District.
I made inquiries but could find no case where a respectable
mechanic had ever applied for lodging in the houses.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
ISAAC BATTRAM,
23rd September, 1880. Sanitary Inspector,
Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
2nd October, 1880.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 2nd October, 1880.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2275
Houses specially visited 427
House specially re-visited 1708
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 314 premises 192
Compulsory ordeps issued, embracing 172 premises 41
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
„ under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 2
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 0
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 5
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 122
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 34
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 722
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 42
Drains in houses improved 61
Dust-bins provided 8
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 85
Water supply provided or improved 11
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 30
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 26
Animals (pigeons, fowls, geese, and 1 pig) kept so as to be a nuisance,
removed 72
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,
15, Great Alie Street, JOHN LIDDLE.