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Sanitaby Wobks Pebformed during the Quabteb ended
31st December, 1881.
The following return shows the amount of work done by tho Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 31st December, 1881.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2225
Houses specially visited 275
Houses specially re-visited 1104
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 272 premises 166
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 110 premises 49
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 1
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 3
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 3
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 105
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 95
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 2620
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 61
Drains iD houses improved 53
Dust-bins provided 3
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 76
Water supply provided or improved 16
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 30
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 0
Animals, fowls, pigeons, and several thousand tortoises kept so as to
be a nuisance, removed
Cesspools abolished 0
Nuisance from smoking and curing of fish removed 0
Nuisance from the retention of dead bodies in living rooms removed 2
The cow-houses in the District, 23 in number, and the slaughter-houses,
13, have been visited during the Quarter.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this District during the year
has been 256G, and the deaths 2351, including those of non-residents
in the London Hospital (446). In the preceding year the births were
2733 and the deaths 2302, including the deaths of 439 non-residents.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 329, against 350 for the
previous year; and the deaths in the London Hospital 654 against
631.
The population of the District, at the taking of the last census,
according to the unrevised enumerated table, and published weekly
in the Returns of the Registrar-General, was 71,350; but in a
recently corrected return, the population is 71,301.