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Removal of Nuisances, &c.
Rotherhithe Sanitary District. Inspector's Report of the Sanitary
Work, Ac., completed in the year ending March, 1881.
Houses and premises 890
Complaints received 802
Notices served 456
Infectious Cases removed to Hospital59
Houses disinfected 91
Bedding destroyed and compensation paid 12
Bedding and clothes purified 36
Dust Complaints received 406
Summonses issued and Magistrate's Orders made8
One barrel herrings, 2 boxes herrings, 1 trunk 17 cod fish, 1 pad fish and 5
turkeys seized, condemned and destroyed. In two cases a penalty of £5 and £2 was
inflicted by the Magistrate.
Joseph Edwards, Inspector.
Slaughter-houses.
Nine notices were received in September, 1880, from Butchers, of their intention to
applv to the Special Serious lor Licenses for Slaughter-houses, and they having been
severally inspected by the Medical Officer of Health, were all duly licensed by the
Magistrates in October, 1880.
Cow Houses.
Six Cow Houses were licensed by the Magistrates in October, 1880, they having
been previously inspected and approved by the Medical Officer of Health.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.
38th and 39th Vict., rap. 63.
The following are copies of I)r. John Muter's (the Analyst) Reports for the year
ending 31st March, 1881.