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During the year I received 9 complaints of Pigs being kept so as to
be a nuisance and injurious to health; notices were given to the owners
of the premises to have them immediately removed, which was done.
Complaints where also made of two Marine store shops, were nuisances
were caused by offensive accumulations, one of the places was altogether
unfit for such a trade from want of space and proper ventilation; this
has been discontinued, and in the other the nuisance has been abated.
I made three periodical inspections of the Licensed Slaughter-houses
in the course of the year; they are 90 in number and have all been
kept in a satisfactory condition; attention to drainage, paving, ventilation,
water supply, and cleanliness, being strictly observed.
During the year I received 710 applications to have Dust removed
which were all promptly attended to by the Contractor.
The Roads and Streets have been regularly and efficiently cleansed,
and the sweepings and road drift removed in a satisfactory manner.
In the course of the year, I summoned four persons before the
Magistrate at the Police Court, Worship Street, to show cause for
refusing or neglecting to comply with notices I had previously given them,
to abolish cesspools and erect proper water closets with drains to the
sewers; in all the cases the Magistrate made an order that what was
required should be done, and the parties to pay all the costs and expenses
incurred in obtaining the order.
It may be useful to present at one view the entire number of sanitary
improvements effected in the Parish since the establishment of the Vestry
in 1856, embracing a period of six years; 2382 cesspools have been
abolished, 3549 water closets have been erected in the place of open
privies, 2142 house drains have been cleansed and repaired; dust bins
have been provided for 543 houses, and 102 additional windows have
been put in to improve ventilation; all these Works have been executed
at the expense of the owners, and must in the aggregate have involved an
outlay of something like £10,000, they are all of a permanent character
and cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on the general health of the
Parish.