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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
2nd April, 1881.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 2nd April, 1881.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2630
Houses specially visited 175
Houses specially re-visited 875
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 305 premises 203
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 70 premises 28
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 7
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 4
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 0
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 176
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 115
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 3381
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 43
Drains iD houses improved 47
Dust-bins provided 15
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 72
Water supply provided or improved 41
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 38
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 4
Animals (swine) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 9
Cesspools abolished 0
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
Great Alie Street.