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4. Proceedings under Sees. 150 and 152 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and under the Private Street
Works Act, 1892. The Clerk informs me that the number of streets (not being highways repairable by
the inhabitants at large) which were sewered, levelled, paved, metalled, flagged, channelled, or lighted,
during the year, after notice to their respective frontagers, under these Acts, with a view to their being
declared to be highways, was none, as against three in 1884, two in 1886, two in 1887, four in
1888, two in 1889, four in 1890, two in 1891, three in 1892, and one in 1893.
5. As to the proposed Works of Sewerage and Sewage-Disposal. In June, the Sanitary Authority
submitted to the Local Government Board plans and estimates of a scheme which had been prepared by
Mr. Baldwin Latham, C.E., for laying the necessary sewers in the district, and for treating the sewage on
the land in the parish of Mitcham, which the Authority were empowered by Act of Parliament to take
for that purpose, and they asked the Board to sanction a loan for the execution of these works. The
Board, accordingly in October, caused an inquiry to be held at Carshalton by one of their Inspectors into
the matter of the application, and took evidence both in favour of the scheme and against it, but had not
given their decision in the matter before the year closed.
6. A sytematic inspection, or house-to-house visitation, of certain parts of the district which are
most in need of it, including St. James's Road, St. John's Road, St. Andrew's Road, Levett's Rents,
William Street, Harold Road, Wandle Mount, and West Street Lane, was frequently made by the
Inspector of Nuisances and myself, and defects of closets, drainage, and dwellings were remedied as far as
was practicable.
7. The following is the Sanitary Inspector's return of the Nuisances dealt with, and other work
done, during the year ending December 31st:—
Number of Complaints received in writing 9
Number of Premises inspected under Section 92 of the Public Health Act, 1875 508
Number of Nuisances discovered. 25
Ditto remedied without being reported 166
Ditto reported to the Sanitary Authority 69
Ditto remedied after report 63
Number of Notices served for the Abatement of Nuisances, under Section 94 69
Particulars of Work done by owners or occupiers, for the Abatement of Nuisances, in compliance with
Twtice:—
Number of privies, cesspools, ditches, pools, watercourses, urinals, ashpits, and drains, cleansed,
and number of deposits removed 147
Number of old privies re-constructed as water-closets 2
Number of old privies re-constructed, with small watertight vaults or with pails
Number of Premises at which the drains were re-constructed, ventilated, trapped, or disconnected
from the house-pipes or rain-water pipes 32
Number of Premises at which new drains or cesspools were provided under Sec. 23 or Sec. 94 3
Number of Premises from which animals, improperly kept, were removed
Number of Houses which were provided with efficient ventilation 4
Number of Houses at which injurious overcrowding was abated 2
Number of damp unwholesome Houses which were repaired 26
Number of filthy Houses which were cleansed and limewashed 17
Legal proceedings taken, under Sec. 96, for abatement of nuisances (number of times) 3
Houses condemned by the Justices as unfit for human habitation, under Section 97 —
Number of Samples of Water sent to the Medical Officer of Health for Analysis 2
,, Wells permanently or temporarily closed, after notice, under Section 70 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, as unfit for drinking or domestic purposes
,, Houses to which water was supplied by owners of premises after notice under Section
62 of that Act—
E. L. JACOB.
8, Alienburg Gardens, Clapham Common,
16th January, 1895.
The usual tables are appended to the Report.