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DISINFECTION.—Inspector Fletcher shews in his report
appended that 215 houses in which small pox, scarlet and
other fevers had occurred, were disinfected, by fumigating
the infected rooms with sulphur, and by exposing the rooms,
keeping the windows open much to the open air, therewith
diluting and destroying the poison, and by cleansing the
walls, floors and ceilings with carbolic acid and water.
The Disinfecting Oven has worked well, 123 infected beds,
158 pillows, 112 bolsters, 87 mattrasses, and 713 other articles
were disinfected at the Disinfecting Oven.
Much of the Inspector's time has been occupied in
securing the isolation of infected persons; for this purpose
41 of the 50 persons suffering from small pox were removed
to the small pox hospital.
TRADE NUISANCES.—Several minor complaints have been
made to the Sanitary Department, of trades such as Skin
Dryers, of dust and offensive effluvia escaping into the
surrounding premises.
Gas Works, Great Cambridge Street. Noxious gases
escape from the purifiers. This nuisance has been much
lessened during the past year, but occasional nuisances are
caused in the course of cleansing the purifiers.
COW HOUSES and SLAUGHTER HOUSES are now supervised
by the Inspectors of the Metropolitan Board, but should
nuisances dangerous to health occur in these premises the
Vestry could, under the Nuisance Removal Act, at any time
take action.
REMOVAL OF DUST.—Inspector Fletcher reports that it has
been in the last year better attended to, about 18,000 loads
were removed from the parish ; but it is needless to say that