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TABLE III.
Summary of Sanitary Work, Quarter ending July 1st, 1871.
I.—Inspections consequent
on Nuisances, Complaints,
and Offensive
and Injurious Trades.
Houses and Places Inspected with respect to their
Sanitary State
260
Orders issued for Sanitary Works
230
Works done
230
Works in progress
30
Inspections of Offensive Trades
20
„ Mews and Manure Wharves
42
„ Cow-houses
24
,, Slaughter-houses
36
,, Bake-houses
6
„ Mortuary or Dead-house almost daily
—
„ Provision Markets every Saturday
—
„ Churches, Chapels and Schools
6
„ Factories, Work-rooms and other Public
Institutions
17
„ Fever Small-Pox Conveyance used
158
II.—Systematic Sanitary
Inspection of Dwellings
Houses and Premises visited and inspected
134
Re-inspections
1444
Orders issued for Sanitary Works
134
Works executed
114
Formal Orders issued by the Vestry
8
III.— Attendances upon
Magistrates, Surveyor,
at the Police,Coroner's
Courts, and Licensing
Meetings.
Attendances
8
Summonses
5
For obtaining Summonses
7
„ hearing „
7
Letters written
100
Nuisances and Complaints during the Quarter ending
July lst, 1871.
The register book of complaints and nuisances contains
9 8 cases, which admit of the following classification:—
Defects of drainage and untrapped gulleys.—
„ „ water supply 13
Dirty state of premises, water closets, urinals,
stagnant water, percolations, &c 24
Offensive trades, marine stores, frying of fish,
ballast burning, bad meat, &c. 5
Overcrowding and bad ventilation 2
Smoke nuisances 2
Animals being dirtily kept, and noises from. 5
Smells from the Canal Basin 1
Accumulation and deposit of manure, garbage,
refuse, dust, dung, &c 22
Smells from decaying and putrid substances. 3
Defective cleansing of Eoadways 7
Dangerous Structure 2
Miscellaneous other complaints 12
Total . 98
These Complaints received almost immediate attention.