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but to the argest number in tbe first; Scarlatina was fatal to the largest
numbers in the first and fourth quarters; Diphtheria was most fatal in the third,
first, and second quarters; Hooping Cough in the first and second quarters;
Diarrhoea by far the most fatal in the third quarter; whilst Low Fever was
almost equally fatal in the first, third, and fourth quarters, and somewhat less
so in the second.
SANITARY WORKS.
I am glad to be able to congratulate the Parish on the paving of Gray's Inn
Road, and the formation of good macadamized roads in a number of streets lying
between Gray's Inn Road and Bagnigge "Wells Road, in the St. Jude's Ecclesiastical
District. This portion of the Parish having belonged to no Paving
Board under the old regime had never been taken to by your Vestry until
lately, so that the roads there were in a very bad state, and certainly injurious
to health from their stagnant pools and the accumulations of animal and vegetable
refuse upon them. Some new roads have also been made in Agar Town,
another very much neglected part of the Parish.
I am sorry that I cannot report to the same effect respecting new sewerage in
the Parish. The only new sewers that have been made are pipes in Winchester
Terrace, Agar Town, in Midford Place, Tottenham Court Road, and York
Buildings, Church Way. There are still many places in the Parish where new
sewers are required. The open sewerage in the Gospel Oak Pields and other
parts of Kentish Town urgently requires to be covered in with proper sewers.
The following improvements have been effected, under the inspection of
myself or the Sanitary Inspectors:—
185 houses have been supplied with new drains.
656 new traps have been put on drains.
198 houses have had their drainage repaired and improved.
270 cesspools have been cleared out and abolished.
286 closets have been supplied with new pans, traps, and water supply.
29 new water closets have been erected.
57 new dust-bins have been erected.
68 dust-bins have been repaired.
127 yards and cellars have been fresh paved.
21 houses have been supplied with water.
105 houses have been cleansed and limewhited.
46 houses have had their ventilation improved.
2 houses unfit for habitation have been shut up.
In 10 houses overcrowding has been abated.
37 lots of pigs have been removed.
24 cow-sheds have been improved.
161 other nuisances of various kinds have been abated.
In carrying out these improvements there have been served 545 preliminary
notices, and 123 final notices. In 138 cases it has been necessary to take the
cases before the Magistrates by means of summonses. Six butchers have been
summoned and fined for killing in places not licensed for slaughtering. The
number of complaints entered on the books has been 786.
The time of the Inspectors has been also engaged in abating a moral nuisance,
though not perhaps strictly a sanitary nuisance, I mean the Sunday trading
in Somers Town. Forty summonses have been issued under the old Paving
Acts, for the removal of obstructions caused by these Sunday traders, and have
been successful in their object so far as the stalls in the streets are concerned.
Syphilis gave 38 deaths in 1859, whilst it only gave 19 in 1858. This does not
speak well for the public morality.