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removed, and many slaughter houses were also examined. This
amount of work could not have been done in any former year,
as the staff was too small for the requirements of the District;
indeed, if the examination of all houses as regards the means of
drainage and water supply is to be quickly done, another
inspector for that purpose must be appointed.
It will be noticed that amongst the places inspected there are
107 bakehouses mentioned. These were examined not under
the powers of the "Bakehouses Regulation Act," as that was
repealed by the new "Factory Act," but under the general
powers conferred on the Sanitary Authority and its Officers by
the "Sanitary Act," as regards the inspection of premises
wherever nuisances are known or suspected to exist. The
bakehouses were found to be in a similar condition, certainly
not better, than they were before the Inspectors of Factories
were empowered to issue notices for their being kept in a cleanly
and wholesome condition. There were no waterclosets or cases
of bad drainage found in the bakehouses.
In the Appendix will be found a list of the streets inspected
dining the year, from which it will be seen that 4,990 houses
were examined, and the rooms, staircases and water closets, the
drains and water supply apparatus, as well as the conditions of
the yard as to paving and drainage were ascertained, and
notices served for the removal of the nuisances found in 3,968
houses. In a large proportion of these the means of drainage
received special attention. These houses contained 23,492 rooms,
7,421 families, and 32,651 inmates. All these houses were
inspected without any complaint being received, so that a
considerably larger number was visited by the inspectors. As
many as 798 cases of small pox were reported from these houses,
out of a total of 1,146 cases in the whole of the District. There
occurred in these houses 175 cases of scarlet fever, 27 of
diphtheria, 60 of typhoid fever, and 2 of other fevers. As the
total number of eases of diphtheria reported was 56, there was
a larger proportion of these cases amongst the inhabitants of
better class houses, than of small pox.