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Street, Pelham Street, Peter's Court, Johnson's Back Change, Swallow's Gardens,
and Prescott Place. In Pelham Street, a block of new lodging-houses has been erected,
each house being calculated to contain two families, and is fitted up with every convenience.
A large private lodging-house has also been opened in Osborne Place, in
which the apartments are well ventilated, clean, and well adapted for the convenience
of the inmates. Here, the drainage is good, and water supply abundant, and if the
rooms are not permitted to be overcrowded, there is every prospect that this building
will afford a healthy residence for several poor people.
Since the date of my last report, verdicts of "guilty" have been obtained against
the two sugar-refiners, alluded to in one of my former reports, for the nuisance occasioned
by the re-burning of animal charcoal. In both cases, considerable alterations
have been made to their premises, with a view of abating the nuisance so justly and
strongly complained of. In the one case, the improvements which have been made,
appear to have had the effect of preventing the escape into the immediate neighbourhood
of the noxious gases arising from the process of the re-burning of the animal
charcoal, for no complaints are now made either to your Board or to your Officers;
but in the other case, further improvements are required, as the nuisance is not satisfactorily
abated, and the success, which the firm had anticipated from the alterations,
has not as yet been attained.
Proceedings have been taken against certain bone boilers, and bone crushers,
&c., in the district, and such arrangements have been made with each party as to
place the Board in a position effectually to prevent annoyance and injury to the public
from the disgusting effluvia from these premises.
I stated in my last report, that I hoped to be able to inform the Board that the
nuisance arising from the Refinery Premises belonging to Sir Anthony Rothchild,
adjoining the Royal Mint, had been effectually suppressed, but I regret to state, that
the nuisance still continues. Sir Anthony Rothchild, however, has expressed
his readiness to adopt all practicable alterations for the removal of the nuisance, and
it is to be hoped that his intention will be forthwith carried into effect, as the nuisance
is of such a description, as to be highly prejudicial to the health and comfort of persons
residing within its influence.
In consequence of the very irregular manner in which some of the streets, and
most of the bye places are numbered, very considerable difficulty has been found in
localizing all the cases of fever and other diseases, and as there are many places in
the district bearing the same name, there will perhaps be found some inaccuracy in
the table showing the mortality from zymotic diseases and cases of fever in the various
localities of the district, so far as those courts are concerned, which bear the same
name in the same registration district. I would, therefore, respectfully urge the
Board to cause the name to be legibly affixed to every street and court in the district,
and the number of each house to be conspicuously painted, either on, or above the
door. There are 149 streets and places which require the names to be affixed to
them. In many streets, the same number will be found on several doors; and on
others, there are no numbers at all.