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:

NUISANCES ABATED FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1865.

Number of Sinks remaining full....

175

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..

4,207

2,086

121

254

105

229

9

715

4,207

2,086

121

254

105

226

9

715

Total number of defects remedied.....

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. :

Two hundred and fourteen sets of books, valued at $392, have been recovered and restored to the teachers of the public schools.

CONVICTIONS, ETC.

CONVICTIONS, ACQUITTALS, AND DISCHARGES.

By the Court of Special Sessions, in and for the City and County of New York, from the year 1840 to 1865, inclusive.

1064 1180 1419 1453 1475 1415 1411 2047 1788 2041 1919 1953 2082 1747 1397 1512 1411 1963

97 78 138 142 148 193 220 173 258 261 219 187 214 179 108 190 208 273 317 289 365 382 256 279 263 323 536 481 376 361 354 586 454 584

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226 296 287 395 551 615 508 334 430 558 837 662 978 1230 1152 929 986 1589 1697 1699 1919 1606 1475 1191 1067 1239
32 30 33 54 86 90 87 48 52 59 76 43 51 67 66 84 84 284 344 349 392 285 259 168 166 186
488 396 375 537 838 1158 1109 697 672 988 1382 1194 1167 1120 1184 1064 1454 1627 1784 1849 1623 1641 1330 1107

1369 1466 1577 2032 1519 3047 2922 2352 2502 2966 3933 3539 3884,3944 3921 4354 4449 5825 6748 6957 7005 6189 5425 5057 4392 5508