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necessity for early information of all such diseases in order that
stops may be taken for placing the patient under circumastances the
most favourable for recovery, and for the limitation of the area of
the disease.
A case of Typhus was reported on December 6th, the patient
was a lad aged 16, residing in Union Terrace Eastfield Street; the
family which was a large one,living in two small rooms, was in
poverty, and had undergone privation for some weeks; the patient,
who was a rag sorter at a place in the neighbourhood,was removed
to Hospital.
Sanitary Work.
Your Sanitary Stair has been engaged in the ordinary routine
inspection throughout the year. In net I may say that in no
previous year have the inspection numerous or the work
performed more continuous. As you may see from an examination
of Table VI. 4,215 houses and premises were inspected,
of which 1,270 were re inspected; 3,717 orders for amendments
of houses were issued ; 258 premises were cleansed and
whitewashed, and 191 houses were disinfected after sickness of an
infectious character; 466 house drains were repaired, cleansed , and
trapped; yards were paved and received and 1,973closets
were supplied with water. The work in this respect entitled
much labour on the inspectors, as a great opposition and
prejudice on the part of owners of property had to be overcome.
The provisions of the Canal Boat Act have been carried out as well
as the difficulties surrounding such duties have permitted; 88 boats
were inspected, and I personally examined and reported on between
30 and 40. The Bakehouses and the licensed Cowsheds and Slaughterhouses
have also been regularly inspected. In addition to the
carrying out of the.se duties, 4,844 articles of clothing and bedding
were disinfected, free of charge, in the apparatus belonging to the
Board, and returned to their owners.
Messrs. Wickens Pease & co. were subjects of complaint on
many occasions. You are aware that they are the owners of tho
Bone Boiling Works at Broad Bridge, Shad well, a business certain
to be the cause of complaint, unless every precaution to prevent a
nuisance be taken. I have described the process to which the bones
are subjected to you often, and there is no reason to repeat it bore.
I he nuisance arose principally from three points of the factory, viz.
the place where the bones were deposited on their arrival, the place
where they were boiled, and the bone-hole or receptacle where they
were dried; by far the greater nuisance arose from the boiling place
and the bone-hole. The former has now been enclosed, and the
effluvium from the latter drawn by a fan and discharged Into the
boiler furnace.The result is an abatement of the nuisance.I have
reason to believe that the place of deposit of bones on their
arrival will be enclosed.