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sanitary improvements since the Metropolitan Management
Act came into operation in 1856. It is not a
complete record, but interesting as fur as it goes. The
number of houses inspected applies to the same houses
which year after year are again visited, and I regret to
observe that, however frequent may be the re-inspections
the same premises always require more or less a
repetition of former sanitary measures :—
Return of Sanitary Works and Mortality from the Parish
of St. Martin-iu-the-Fields.
A Number of Houses inspected in 5 years, 1850-60 1,285
,, Cesspools filled up 61
3 Estimated number of feet of new Pipe Drainage contructed,
12-in. Pipes for Sewers of small streets, &c.
i Estimated length of new hewers 978 ft.
„ New Water Closets 27
,, Closets to which Water has been laid on 287
„ Houses wholly cleansed and limewaahed 889
Number of Yards paved and repaired,— very numerous, but no record.
,, „ cleansed and hmewashed „ „
„ New dust bins „ „
„ Dust bins repaired ,, ,,
,, Houses newly supplied with water „ „
1830
Population in 1831— 23,483. Number of Deaths in 1831 710
1832
1840 665
1841—25,130 „ „ 1841 589
1842 614
1850 564
„ 1851—24,640 „ „ 1851 607
1852 589
J „ 1861—22,689 „ „ 1860
Number of Deaths in 1856 598
„ 1857 658
1858 593
1859 603
„ „ 1860 565
There are some parts of our parish which have been
much improved from the operation Of the Metropolitan