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Your committee have met 36 times during the year, and with the
Clerk, Medical Officer, and the Inspector of Nuisances, have been to 124
streets, courts, or alleys, and have inspected 2452 houses.
Your committee beg to report that by their instructions, 476 notices
have been served by the Inspector on the owners or occupiers of the
property requiring improvements, and that it is with great satisfaction
your committee have to report, that such orders are being generally
complied with.
Your committee in carrying out their scheme of making a thorough
and impartial house to house inspection, have of course not limited their
visits to the houses of the poorer classes, but have with equal care
examined houses of every description. They are happy to be able to
report, that the great majority of the houses of the better class are well
drained, and otherwise in a satisfactory condition, but that they have
met even here with numerous instances of defective sanitary provisions,
such as to fully prove the desirability of comprehensive inspection.
Your committee have been gratified to observe the pleasure with
which they have been received by the occupiers of the smaller houses
in the parish, showing that they were desirous of improving the sanitary
condition of their dwellings, but as your committee believes a want of
independence prevented them from obtaining that which your committee
by their orders promptly carried into effect.
Your committee have recommended proceedings should be taken
against certain persons who have neglected to carry out the orders of
the committee, and they are happy to state, that in all cases, by the
advice of the Clerk, backed by the valuable evidence of the Medical
Officer, the Magistrates have made the orders required, and the Inspector
has been unremitting in carrying their order into effect.
Your committee have had occasional meetings for the purpose of
hearing applicants who have any explanation to offer why the orders
served upon them should not be strictly carried out, and it is gratifying
to your committee to state that the parties themselves have fallen in
with the views of your committee, and in all cases the orders of the