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Table XXVI. (c) supplies the details of the sanitary
works (apart from those just considered, and from those in
relation to infectious diseases, and to the Food and Drugs
Act), which have been carried out under the direction of the
Sanitary Inspectors during the year.
Table XX VJ. (d) is a brief summary of the duties performed
by the Inspectors under the Food and Drugs Act.
This matter will, of course, be found treated in fuller detail
in the Analyst's report.
In Table XXVII. will be found a full statement of the
number of houses disinfected, and of the number and nature
of the- articles disinfected or destroyed by the officers of the
Vestry. It will be observed that the number of houses disinfected
and of cases reported does not correspond. This
discrepancy depends upon several causes; the most important
one being that several infectious cases are apt to
occur at one time, or within a short period, in one house;
and another important one being that, from various circumstances,
a certain number of houses are disinfected without
the intervention of the Vestry or do not need disinfection.
It was during the latter part of the year ending March
25th, 1891, that the Vestry, on the recommendation of
the Sanitary Committee, decided to appoint five Assistant
Sanitary Inspectors to assist the Sanitary Inspectors by
taking on much of the sanitary work which had formerly
been performed by the Inspectors, but which, during the
last two or three years, had been falling into arrears owing
to the onerous nature of the duties connected with the
drainage of houses which had been devolved upon them.