There was also delivered by the several precincts, detective and court squads, according to the weekly returns made to this office for the quarters ending January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31, 1865: There was sold at public auction, during the year ending October 31, 1865, the following number of lots, viz. : There were six sales at public auction during the year ending October The receipts of this office during the year ending October 31, 1865, were: For sales at public auction.. For unclaimed cash... Sale of two boats, boiler, and worm at auction.. Goods sold at private sale (perishable).. Total.. $5,703 68 1,243 44 74 70 248.90 $7,270 72 The disbursements of this office for the year were..... $1,302 26 5,968 46 Total.. $7.270 72 J. W. BOUCK, Property Clerk. SANITARY COMPANY. The Sanitary Company of the Metropolitan Police Department is located at the Central Office, No. 300 Mulberry street, Rooms Nos. 37 and 38. It is under the supervision of Capt. B. G. Lord, and has one Sergeant and thirty-four patrolmen detailed by the Board of Police. The duties of the Company are numerous and diversified, among which is the inspection of the tenement houses of this city by a portion of the members of the Company, and, if found filthy or unsafe, the owner or agent is served with a notice to cleanse or repair the same within three days; is not cleaned under notice, it is ordered done by the Board of Police. The following are carefully prepared statistical tables, showing the number of tenement houses in this city containing three families and upward, their population, sanitary condition, ventilation, means of escape from fire, sewerage, &c., the number of nuisances reported and abated during the past year, the number of steam boilers examined and tested hydrostatically; also the amount of work performed by truant officers: TABLE OF TENEMENT HOUSES. Whole number of tenement houses... Means of escape, good.... NUISANCES ABATED FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1865. Number of Sinks remaining full.. Number of Sinks cleaned by order of Department... 175 13,239 Attached is a statistical record of the number of steam boilers reported; the number examined and re-examined, tested hydrostatically, con demned and removed, found defective and repaired by order of the De Number of Steam Boilers repaired by order of Department.... 121 There have been 615 applicants for certificates to take charge of steam boilers, who have been examined in regard to their qualifications. Of this number 549 were found qualified and granted certificates, and 66 refused, not having the requisite qualifications. TRUANT REPORT. There are five men detailed as school officers to look after idle and truant children, and whose duty it is to visit our public schools and obtain and report the names and residences of absentees. During the past year there have been reported by the teachers to the truant officers 5,235 children, as absentees or truants from school. All of these have been visited at their homes, with the exception of 397, whose residence could not be found. Of the whole number reported, 2,091 were reported without cause, viz.: |