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Sanitary Works performed during the Year 1880.
Number of inspections of houses, as shown in the official returns 9322
Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being
less than 300 cubic feet for each person—nuisance in each
case abated 24
Houses specially visited 1335
,, re-visited 13653
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence
of fever and scarlet-fever therein 245
Articles disinfected, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c. 7345
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 1321
premises 741
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 664 premises 213
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 7
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of
Food, &c. 5
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 679
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 130
Cesspools abolished 1
Drains in houses improved 257
Dust-bins provided 22
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 404
Water-supply provided or improved 66
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired 95
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 9
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 114
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance removed 121
All the Cow-houses and the Slaughter-houses have been visited
four times during the year.