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During this period the Inspectors, Wood, Cooper, and
Waters (Cooper, however, having been removed from the
work of house-to-house inspection, and detailed to special
duties in reference to small-pox, from February 13th, 1871,
to the end of the quarter), visited and reported specially on
the condition of 13,503 houses. And as a result of these
inspections, and the sanitary defects discovered, 581 drains
were cleansed, and 240 trapped; 119 cesspools were emptied,
and 108 filled up, and 117 closets were provided; 554 houses
were cleansed and repaired; water was supplied to premises
on 5 occasions, butts and cisterns on 36, and 153 butts
and cisterns were covered; 539 dust-bins were provided, 56
yards paved, and 471 miscellaneous nuisances (from collections
of manure, from pigs, &c.) were remedied. In connection
with these works, 1,466 first and 182 second notices were
served, and 21 summonses were taken out. Besides the above,
3,927 complaints as to non-removal of dust were attended to;
and 78 cow-houses, 61 slaughter-houses, 126 bake-houses,
and 39 workshops were kept under observation. At the
close of the year 33 orders, as yet uncomplied with, were
outstanding.
It should be added, that during the year the three inspectors
above-named kept, as far as they were able to do, a daily
watch over the dust-carts in their respective districts; and
that they carried out between them the re-numbering of
244 houses.
It will bo seen from these figures that the amount of work
done by the Inspectors of Nuisances during the last 12
months was very much greater than the amount done during
any previous 12 months. This result has been mainly due, I