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Disinfection afteR Infectious Disease.
During- the year 64 rooms, and two wards of the Royal Westminster
Ophthalmic Hospital, were disinfected, and the bedding, &c.,
of 24 rooms were removed for the purpose of purifying- by means
of steam, at a cost of £85 14s. 11 d.
The disinfections, as hitherto, are done by Mr. W. G. Lacy, who
has extensive and model premises for the purpose at St. John's
Wharf, Town Mead Road, Fulham, and who carries them out with
the greatest promptitude and care.
The House to House Inspection.
This work, though not completed, is still in course of progress.
The unforeseen difficulties encountered have been very numerous, but
notwithstanding, the amount of drainage works already carried out
in the Parish has been very considerable, and I may add very
costly.
Some of the difficulties were, the unwillingness of many of the
parishioners to do the works ordered, due, in many cases, to the
want of pecuniary means; difficulty of finding who was the
responsible party to do the work; construction of the new sewerage
works in the Adelphi area and Strand; the resignation of the
Sanitary Inspectors; and lastly the number of new houses erected,
and still in course of erection, all the drainage works of which have
to be superintended by your Sanitary Inspector during the process
of construction.
When one takes into consideration the large amount of work
that has been done, and resorting so rarely to legal proceedings, I
think we may congratulate ourselves on so happy a result.
Appended is a list of those premises where notices and plans
have been sent in of intention to lay down new drains since the
commencement of this inspection down to the end of February,
1806.
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