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addition there were 395 articles disinfected at the Board's
apparatus; large quantities of disinfectants were distributed to
the poor, and also placed in the gullies and sewers ; 28 bodies
taken to the mortuary, and 61 pads of fish condemned as unfit for
human food.
The number of notices served were in excess of last year,
as 210 notices were given to owners of property to prevent
overcrowding, and to cleanse, whitewash and repair their houses
in accordance with the 34th section of the Sanitary Act, and
24 for the abatement of overcrowding. In addition to these
there were 3,712 preliminary, 1,662 peremptory, and 873
statutory notices served during the year, but only 53 summonses
taken out, which is the smallest for some years.
Although the overcrowding cases were not numerous—viz.,
only 24—yet some of them were very bad. For instance; at 10,
Otway Street, the inspector found the father, mother, and six
children, including one of 16 and one of 14, living and sleeping
in a room containing 1,914 cubic feet of air; at 13, Goring
Street, the father, mother, and six young children lived and slept
in a small room having a cubic capacity of only 843 feet; at
9, Ada Street, the father, mother, a son of 12, a daughter of 17,
and a child under 10, lived and slept in a smaller room, the
capacity of which was only 832 cubic feet; in a room which held
only 484 cubic feet, in Blanchard Road, there lived and slept the
mother, and six children under 10 years old; at 16, Urban
Place, Sheep Lane, the father, mother, a son of 16, a girl of 13,
and four others under 10, lived and slept in a room of 231 feet
capacity; at 32, Palace Road, the father, mother, a son of 17, and
five children under 12, lived and slept in a small room which
contained only 864 cubic feet, and in Queen's Court, Well Street,
the grandmother, father, mother, and six children, were discovered
living and sleeping in one small room which held only 688 cubic
feet. The whole of these cases were discovered on inspection, and