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The Inspector of Nuisances Reports as follows:
I beg to lay before you the following summary of proceedings
taken for the removal of nuisances, and the number of constructive
works that have been executed for the sanitary improvement of the
Parish, during the year ending March 25th, 1863.
I inspected 2850 houses; 358 cess-pools have been emptied and filled
up; 521 proper water closets have been erected in the place of open privies,
all provided with proper trapped soil pans, and proper drains to the sewers;
GO house-drains have been cleansed and repaired—a number of them
that were old brick drains have been taken out, and glazed pipes put in
their place, thus an efficient drainage has been provided for 581 houses;
and in many of the yards the pavement has been repaired, and proper
provision made for improved surface drainage.
Dust-bins have been provided for 146 houses; additional windows have
been made in 8 houses, to improve the ventilation; and 104 houses that
had been the seat of contagious disease were either wholly or partially
limewashed.
These improvements have been distributed over the length and breadth
of the Parish; but there arc two or three localities where the largest
number have been effected. Boston-street, the east-side of which I
reported as having been done last year, has now been completed, and all
the houses, 80 in number, properly drained, the privies properly trapped,
and the cesspools abolished. John-street, Dove-row, that was without
the means of drainage until August last, where there were cesspools in
every yard, and somo of them always overflowing, they being the only
receptacles for the surface water. Since the sewer was made in the
street, all the houses, 40 in number, have been properly drained, the
cesspools all abolished, and the privies that were all open have been
provided with proper trapped soil pans, and the places, such as they arc,
made healthy and comfortable,—a pleasing contrast with their former
condition.
A sewer has recently been put into Cotton's-gardens, Hackney-road,
and 24 privies have been drained into it, and the cesspools abolished.
This place had long been a plague spot on the Parish map, the privies