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The work done by the Inspectors of
Nuisances during the 12 months ending March 25th,
1884, is recorded in Tables XIV and XV.
During this period 13,229 houses were
inspected, and 6982 re-inspections were made;
2,958 first notices and 192 second notices were
served in respect of these; and in 38 cases it was
needful to summons the persons on whom notices
had been served.
There are few matters of special importance
to be recorded in connection with the ordinary sanitary
work of my department. I may mention, however,
that a butcher was summoned for slaughtering
cattle on unlicensed premises, and was fined £5 and
r
costs, (this was the second time he had been convicted
of the same offence); that 15 houses were
dealt with under the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings
Act, and that owing to the small prevalence of
dangerous infectious diseases only 278 houses were
disinfected, in place of 454 in the previous year, and
1,047 in the year before that, and that (as would
naturally follow) there was a similar diminution in
the articles of bedding and dress disinfected in the
Disinfecting Apparatus.