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removed, 131 accumulations of dung and other offensive matters
taken away, and 241 other nuisances abated. This is a very large
number considering the great amount of time abstracted from
the usual work by attention to the small pox epidemic.
The number of houses inspected in their regular order,
details of which can be found in the Table of Streets, &c., was
6103 against 517 houses or other premises respecting which
complaints were received. The great sanitary advantages derived
in this district from a regular yearly inspection of the poorer
houses can be readily appreciated by this comparison as the
number of nuisances complained of were not more than oneseventh
part of those that were discovered during the systematic
inspection. This plan has been carried out regularly since 1866,
and has doubtless assisted most materially in keeping the death
rate of our district so low in comparison with that of most metropolitan
parishes and districts. In addition to these works were
the inspections of cowsheds and slaughter houses, numbering
172, not only previously to the licensing time, but also at other
periods of the year; of greengrocers, fishmongers and poulterers'
yards, and a systematic oversight of the urinals. There were
also 167 bakehouses visited and orders issued for the limewhiting
and cleansing of those that were found to be dirty. The total
number of separate premises inspected was 8127, to most of
which several visits were paid.
Besides the visits just enumerated we must add those paid
to the 6103 houses inspected without complaint, but in which no
nuisances were discovered. The table in the appendix shows
that 2987 houses were examined throughout, as well as the yard,
water closets and water supply apparatus without any nuisances
having been discovered, and also that a very large number of visits
were paid to houses to ascertain if the dustmen carried out their
duties properly. As regards the 6103 houses inspected it was
found that 25,996 rooms were used for living or sleeping in or
for both purposes, being rather more than the same proportion