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St. Pancras will be then entirely supplied by water on the constant system,
excepting a small area served by the West Middlesex Company, situated West of
the Hampstead Road, between Cumberland Market and the Euston Road.
DRAINAGE.

SEWERAGE.
The lower half of the Gray's Inn Road, a District which, as shown, has the
highest mortalities in the Parish, suffers from a faulty system of sewerage. A
properly laid sewer for this neighbourhood is an urgent question that requires
serious attention.
NUISANCES.
Tables 7 and 8 give a summary of the nuisances abated and of other Sanitary
work executed without and within dwellings. 7,127 premises were inspected, and
14,521 re-inspections made.
VENTILATION AND OVERCROWDING.
The model Bye-laws of the Local Government Board give 300 cubic feet, as a
minimum for an adult, and half that amount for a child under 10 years of age.
Parkes and other authorities agree that 1,000 cubic feet is the proper amount for an
adult. When it is considered that persons both live and sleep in the 300 and 150
cubic feet minimum allowed, it is obvious that much depends upon the ventilation
of the room, which your Sanitary Department has no power to regulate, and that a
grievous injury is inflicted upon ignorant parent and offspring, by allowing confinement
in any unventilated space of 300 and 150 cubic feet. The future health of
individuals is thereby brought into such a condition as to unfit them for healthy
labour, and to drive them prematurely as a burden on to the poor rates, directly and
indirectly a doubly expensive remedy. In dwellings in which persistent overcrowding
takes place it is impossible without Bye-laws to prevent its recurrence
and provide for proper ventilation.
REFUSE REMOVAL.
Of the four kinds of refuse, house, stable, trade, and street, your Sanitary
Department is more directly concerned with the two first. The vigilance of your
Inspectors procures the constant regular removal of stable refuse, of which it is rare