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The Inspector or the East Division Reports as follows:
In accordance with custom I beg to lay before you the following
summary of works for the sanitary improvement of the East Division of
the parish, which have been performed during the 12 months preceding
the 25th March, 1860.
First, that during that period, I have had occasion to inspect 2054
houses, mostly occupied by the poorer class, in the various densely
populated and over crowded courts and alleys of your parish, in many
places where disease and distress work together hand-in-hand, and as one
instance, little known by the more affluent part of our inhabitants, I would
state that during the months of April, May, and June, I made a houseto-house
visitation of 307 houses, in which it was reported that Small-Pox
and Scarlet Fever was raging to a fearful extent, and found that in many
cases thorough cleansing was necessary, which was ordered and done.
In these 307 houses I found 1228 rooms, occupied by 435 families in
sickness and misery, numbering 1658 persons, of whom 755 were adults,
and 903 children, and at the time of visiting their rooms I found 54
with the Small-Pox on them, or were just recovering from it, and that
28 had died.
That during the year. I have caused 530 house drains to be cleansed
and repaired, and in many cases new pipe drains to be substituted for
the old imperfect brick or tile drains.
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That 210 cesspools have been cleansed and abolished by being filled
up with dry rubbish, the existing drains communicating with the Sewers
or drains leading to sewers put in order, in connexion wherewith 308
Water Closets provided with all the necessary apparatus of pans, traps
&c., have been fixed instead of the old open privies.
That in 84 instances, I have caused the paving of the back-yards
near the inlets to the drains to be taken up and relaid, stink traps
provided, and the drainage of the houses improved, thus making a total
of 614.
That I have had complaints of Swine being kept in 27 places, and
caused their removal where they were in close confined situations, or so