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Paddington 1867

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Nuisances and Complaints.

The register book of nuisances and complaints contains 190 cases which admit of the following classification :

Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys.	41
„ „ water supply	5
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals, stagnant water, percolations, &c.	25
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish, amnioniacal liquor, bad meat, &c.	13
Overcrowding and bad ventilation	7
The state of the dead house .	2
Smoke nuisances	8
Animals being kept, and noises from	8
Smells from the Canal Basin .	7
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage, refuse, dust, dung, &c.	57
Smells from decaying substances.	7
Miscellaneous other complaints.	10
	190

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TABLE IV.

Summary of Sanitary Work for Quarter ending September 28tli, 1867.

I.—Inspections consequent on Nuisances, Com- , plaints, and Offensive and Injurious Trades.	Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their Sanitary state	314
	Orders issued for Sanitary Works	43
	Works done	81
	Works in progrsss	—
	Inspections of Offensive Trades	44
	„ Mews and Manure Wharves	193
	„ Cow-houses	35
	,, Slaughter-houses	64
	,, Bake-houses	—
	„ Mortuary or Dead-house	42
	,, Provision Markets	13
	,, Churches, Chapels and Schools	2
	,, Factories, Work-rooms and other Public Institutions	11
II.—Systematic Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings	f Houses and Treatises visited and inspected	313
	Re-inspections	120
	Orders issued for Sanitary Works	CO
	Works executed	120
III. — Attendances upon Magistrates, Surveyor, at thePoliceCourts,&c.	Summonses	2
	For obtaining Summonses	—
	„ hearing „	—
	Letters written	50
	Fines and Penalties paid	£5