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Sanitary Works Performed during the Quarter ended
1st October, 1881.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the SanitaryInspectors
during the Quarter ended 1st October, 1881.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2925
Houses specially visited 262
Houses specially re-visited 1048
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 299 premises 220
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 80 premises 33
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
„ under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 1
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 9
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 6
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 162
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 86
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 2079
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 30
Drains in houses improved 53
Dust-bins provided 4
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 88
Water supply provided or improved 20
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 30
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 0
Animals (pigeons and a horse) kept so as to be a nuisance, removed. 21
Cesspools abolished 0
Nuisance from smoking and curing of fish removed 1
Nuisance from the retention of dead bodies in living rooms removed 2
The cow-houses in the District, 24 in number, and the slaughter-houses,
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.