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Sanitary- Works Performed during the Quarter ended
1st July, 1882.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 1st July, 1882.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 3120
Houses specially visited 320
Houses specially re-visited 1280
Preliminary notices served, sach notices embracing 281 premises 182
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 131 premises 58
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 0
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 3
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 6
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 4
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 140
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 59
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 1941
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 33
Drains in houses improved 80
Dust-bins provided 16
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 61
Water supply provided or improved 11
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 46
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 18
Fowls kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 12
A large quantity of rotten potatoes removed 0
The cow-houses in the District, 23 in number, and the slaughterhouses,
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 Alle Street.