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SANITARY WORK.
The nature, and, so far as figures can indicate it,
the amount of the sanitary work done, directed, or
superintended by the Inspectors during the parochial
year is shewn in Table VI. So much of the time of the
Inspectors has been occupied in investigating the complaints
of parishioners, in attending to the removal of
infectious cases, and the disinfection afterwards of their
apartments, &c.; in discovering the defects and supervising
the improvements of house drains, and of other
work which some might think properly belonged to a
Surveyor, that they have not been able to give that
time to the systematic house to house inspection, which
is imperatively necessary, and must be uninterruptedly
bestowed, if the health and cleanliness of the parish are
to be maintained.
BAKE-HOUSES, COW-SHEDS, AND
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The routine duties of the Inspectors in connexion
with the bake-houses, cow-sheds, and slaughter-houses
in the parish, have been duly performed. Whenever
I inspected the cow-sheds, I found them, with two
exceptions, in a fair sanitary condition.
In these two cases the licenses on the application
for their renewal were suspended by the magistrates
for a month, but were afterwards granted, as the
requirements I had made were complied with.
Structural alterations in slaughter-houses, in compliance
with the Bye-laws of the Metropolitan Board
of Works, were in several instances required. The