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Table IX furnishes a summary of the number of
articles of bedding and wearing apparel which were
disinfected at the parochial disinfecting machine, and
the number of similar articles which were destroyed,
and for which compensation was allowed.
The year to which this Report relates is the
Twenty-fifth year of the Vestry's existence, and the
Twenty-fifth year of my connection with it as Officer
of Health. I have taken the opportunity, therefore, of
giving a Table (Table X), which shews in a somewhat
incomplete form the Sanitary works which have been
performed through the agency of the Inspectors of
Nuisances, during the whole of that long period In
explanation of the hiatuses in the list, I may remark
that most of them are due to the fact that certain
Acts of Parliament which regulate our proceedings,
did not come into operation until the dates at which
works carried out under them appear for the first time
in the enumeration; that in one case (The Work-Shop
Regulation Act), an Act which imposed certain duties
on us was rescinded, so far as we were concerned, a few
years after it was passed; that in several cases, no note
was formerly taken of duties which later were carefully
recorded; and lastly, that for many years nuisances due
to various causes (which have since been distinguished)