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It will be seen from Table XXVI. (a) that your five
out-door Sanitary Inspectors have between them made
7,700 primary inspections and 14,381 re-inspections; and
that the former comprise 4,711 house to house inspections,
1,280 inspections in consequence of complaints, the inspection
of 40 cow-houses, 21 slaughter-houses, and 167 bakehouses,
and the visitation of 1,571 inspection cases. It will
also be observed that these inspections led to the issue of
3,413 notices, either to remove or about nuisances, or to
execute structural sanitary works ; and that at the end of
the year only 188 remained as yet uncomplied with. There
were only 19 summonses taken out during the year under
the Sanitary Acts.
Table XXVI. (b) shows the amount of work done under
the "Rules respecting Drainage and other Sanitary Arrangements
to be observed by builders," which were adopted by
the Vestry on the 22nd May, 1889. There has been a very
large increase over the similar work done during the previous
year; and its quality has improved. Thus, in the former
year there were 703 partial reconstructions of drains of old
houses, and 452 drainages of new buildings, and total reconstructions
of drains, &c., of old houses, whereas in the present
year the partial reconstructions have been only 120, and the
drainages of new buildings and total reconstructions have
risen to 1,278. It is gratifying to find that this work has
been going on, on the whole, very satisfactorily, and with
much less friction than it did in the previous year. I need
not repeat what I have pointed out expressly in several of
my later reports how important this work is, and how important
it is that it should be continued in the sanitary
interests of the Parish.