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SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PARISH.
Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit for your information the following summary
of Sanitary Works, carried out under the inspection, and by the orders
of your Inspectors during the year ending March, 1868.
About 2000 houses have been inspected as the house to house
visitations.
110 houses visited where infectious disorders were raging.
77 Cesspools have been abolished.
50 proper Water Closets have been erected, all provided with proper
trapped soil pans, and properly drained to the Sewers.
201 House Drains have been properly cleansed.
309 Houses have been properly cleansed throughout.
663 Yards have been re-paved to improve the surface drainage.
391 Walls of Yards have been limewhitcd.
557 Drains in Yards have been trapped.
22 Houses have been ventilated by having additional windows or
skylights where ventilation was defective.
25 Courts have been cleansed, and the walls limewhited.
400 New Dust-bins have been provided.
29 cases of insufficient water supply.
20 Dung-pits have been constructed.
36 New Water Butts, and 8 new Cisterns have been provided, and
30 Water Butts have been re-pitched.
15 instances of keeping pigs where notices have been served to remove
them.
In six cases meat and fish have been destroyed, being unfit for
human food.
I have also visited, each week since October, the following Police
Stations, to take the register of the public lamps of the parish damaged