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12 for erecting and repairing dust-bins, 8 for improving
ventilation, 9 for abating smoke nuisance, 4 for
removing animals improperly kept, and 116 for sundry
other improvements of houses.
The Inspector of Shipping has made 1,797 inspections
of ships, and has found 20 requiring sanitary
improvement, chiefly in the cleansing and better
ventilating of the forecastles.
The keeper of the Mortuary in Golden Lane has
received 59 dead bodies during the year, and has
kept them in decent custody before burial: 7 of
these were cases of small-pox, and 4 of continued
fever, the bodies having been removed from the
dwellings of the poor, where they would otherwise
have been retained in the midst of the living.
2,149 infected articles have been received at the
disinfecting rooms, and have either been disinfected
and returned to the owners, or destroyed. They
consisted of 223 sheets, 184 blankets, 182 beds,
120 mattresses, 110 bolsters, 231 pillows, 134 quilts,
493 articles of clothing, 59 carpets, and 413 sundries.
The Markets and Slaughter-houses have been daily
inspected during the year, and the two inspectors
have condemned and seized 195,522 lbs., or about
88 tons of meat, as unfit for human food—189,399 lbs.
were seized in the New Meat Market, 5,084 lbs. at
Aldgate, and 1,039 lbs. at Leadenhall. It consisted
of 74,463 lbs. of diseased meat, 102,050 lbs. of putrid