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from the back of them, not so much advantage to the public health has
been gained as ought to have been, for the filth in some cases has
merely been transferred from the back of the houses to the front of
them ; many of the sewers being little better than cesspools.
Sanitaby Works Performed during the Quarter ended
30th September, 1882.
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the Quarter ended 30th September, 1882.
Number of inspections of houses as shown in the official returns 2262
Houses specially visited 219
Houses specially re-visited 876
Preliminary notices served, such notices embracing 205 premises 143
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 48 premises 23
Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 0
„ 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 18
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 112
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 56
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 2210
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 46
Drains in houses improved 63
Dust-bins provided 10
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 71
Water supply provided or improved 16
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 35
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 3
Several thousand tortoises kept so as to be a nuisance, removed
Cesspools abolished 2
One-hundred-and-four baskets of plums unfit for food destroyed by
consent from St. Katharine's Wharf
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 Alie Street,