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Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 2
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 90
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 49
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 1745
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 41
Drains in houses improved 82
Dust-bins provided 1
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 79
Water supply provided or improved 17
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 32
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 6
Animals, fowls, dogs, and ducks kept so as to be a nuisance,
removed 23
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.
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 Alif, Street.