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however, in order that the total amount of work done in the
12 months may be plainly apparent, to reproduce in a
separate table so much of the list of works included in my
last report as belongs to the first quarter of the year 1892.
These latter facts are given in Table XIV. which is quoted
from my last year's annual report.
It appears from these tables (XIII. A and XIV. A) that,
during the year, 12,247 primary inspections were made
(3.412 in the first quarter, 8,805 in the last three quarters),
including 2,498 house-to-house visits (1,472 in the first
quarter, 1,026 in the last three quarters), 2,590 inspections
consequent on complaints (491 in the first quarter, 2,099
in the last three quarters), 2,291 imspections on account
of notified diseases (225 in the first quarter, 2,066 in the
last three quarters), and 1,605 inspections of new buildings
(598 in the first quarter, 1,007 in the last three quarters).
It appears also that there were 24,299 re-inspections of
works in progress including the rc-inspection of premises in
which notifiable diseases were or had been prevailing; of,
which 6,358 were made in the first quarter and 17,941 in the
last three quarters.
It appears further that in connection with the sanitary
defects revealed by inspection, 1,976 intimations were served,
(386 in the first 3 months, 1,590 in the last nine months),
and 399 notices under the Public Health Act (51 in the
first quarter, 348 in the last three quarters). The summonses
taken out under the Act were 45, of which two only
belonged to the first quarter of the year.
Tables XIII. B and XIV. B show the works that
have been done in relation to the supervision and regulation
of the drainage of houses newly built, and those