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inspected during the year, amounted to 6,197. The number
of rooms inspected and reported upon was 25,862, and of
families residing in them 9,759. The residents were returned
as being 36,480, or less than 6 per house, the average for the
whole District being 6'77 per house, so that probably the
returns made to the Inspectors are a little too small. There
were no less than 2,168 of these houses upon which nuisances
were found, which is a rather smaller number than usual.
The details concerning the whole of the nuisances dealt
with during the year are given in the Appendix, from which
it appears that the total from defective means of drainage
amounted to 1,158 ; that 301 yards were repaved, 327 new
dust bins were provided, 1,946 houses were whitewashed,
cleansed, and repaired, and a better water supply or
apparatus provided in 526. There were 573 houses
disinfected, and a large number of other nuisances abated,
making the total 5,720.
The cost of disinfectants was larger than usual, in
consequence of the great number of small-pox cases in the
District. The sum paid to the men occupied in doing
this work, without including the Inspector's time, was
£140 18s. 9d.; the amount expended on disinfectants
was £68 0s. 9d.; coke and coal, £10 5s. 4d.; and the other
expenses were £2 8s. 4d., making a total of £223 12s. 7d.
The persons benefited repaid a sum of £27 9s. 0d., leaving
the nett cost nearly £200. The number of articles disinfected
by the Officers of the Board was 4,483, and of houses 327.
A.s I devoted a considerable part of my report for 1875 to
a review of the sanitary statistics for the 20 years which
had then elapsed since the constitution of the Board, I
shall not refer at any great length to them now, although
this completes the twenty-fifth year of my work. In table
No. 8 you will find some decennial statistics for 1841-80,
showing the increase of births and deaths for each decennial
period, and of deaths under 1 year to each 100 births, as