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mainly in the most crowded and poorest districts, and
especially amongst the Irish.
Nothing else in the returns call for particular comment.
I he health of the parish on the whole was exceedingly
good.
The sanitary work done by the Inspectors in the year
ending March 25th, 1887, is given in detail in Tables XV.
and XVI.
It will be seen that 9,781 primary inspections were
made and 6,083 re inspections; that 2,879 first notices and
258 second notices were served in respect of these inspections;
and that in only 17 cases was it found necessary to
summon, for non compliance, the persons on whom notices
had been served. The above numbers are smaller than
those of last year, but it is right to mention that one of the
Inspectors, Stevenson, was taken off his ordinary duties for
15 weeks in order to do the work of dust inspection, owing
to the serious and long continued illness of the late
Mr. Fraser.
I need not call att3ntion to the different items composed
in the Tables, for they are almost entirely of the
same nature as those tabulated in former years. There are
two or three matters, however, to which I may briefly refer.
1st.—On the 26th March, 1886, Inspector Stevenson
seized a quantity of unsound pork on the premises of a
butcher residing at 3, Melbourne grove. This was brought
to me for examination, and on Stevenson's evidence and
my certificate, the magistrate before whom it was taken
ordered it to be destroyed. It was forthwith removed by