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will be necessary, from time to time, to inspect them, so that timely notice may be
given to the Police, before they become absolutely dangerous. About 100 houses
have been pulled down in the district during the past year.
The nuisance arising from the keeping of pigs is continually occurring, notwithstanding
the several convictions which have taken place before the magistrates.
Thomas' Street, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Union Workhouse, is the
iocality where this nuisance is most frequently found to exist.
In consequence of the irregularity in the numbering of many of the Streets,
great inconvenience is experienced by the officers of your Board, and by the dustmen,
who are required to call at those houses where nuisances are complained of, and where
the dust has not been removed ; and it not unfrequently happens, that the parties complaining
make fresh application to the Office of the Board, saying, that no attention has
been paid to their complaint, when, upon enquiry, it turns out, that the dustmen went
to the wrong house, there being more than one house of the same number in the street.
In order to remedy this inconvenience, I shall, at an early day, lay before the Board,
a list of the streets in the district which require numbering, accompanied with a suggestion
of the best mode of accomplishing this desirable object.
As complaints continue to be made by the inhabitants of their not knowing
where to make application in cases of nuisance, I would again respectfully request, that
notice boards be fixed in conspicuous parts of the district, informing the inhabitants
where to make such application.
In conclusion, permit me to direct your attention to the desirability of erecting
"DRINKING FOUNTAINS" in the district. Great benefits to the inhabitants,
both morally and physically, have resulted, wherever these fountains have been erected,
and I firmlv believe, that if the working classes could procure, without much trouble,
a draught of pure water, they would not so frequently resort to the public-house
or to the gin palace.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
15, Great A lie Street,
1st February, 1869.
JOHN LIDDLE.