View report page

12
the mode in which their business is carried on; and I have expressed to
them my opinion that, from the dilapidated state of their premises, it was
impossible to carry on therein such a business without occasioning a nuisance
injurious to the health of the neighbourhood.
The nuisance still continues unabated, but the adoption of legal proceedings
has been delayed in consequence of the Messrs. Walmsley having
promised that immediate steps would be taken to provide more suitable
premises in the country for carrying on their business, and that every
possible means would be adopted by them to prevent any cause of complaint
while they continued to work in their present premises.
Registered Common Lodging Houses.
In my report for the quarter ending 1st January, 1870, I drew attention
to the overcrowding of some of the Registered Common Lodging Houses, and
I suggested that a space of not less than 300 cubic feet should be allowed for
each bed. Since the publication of my report, I have been informed that the
rooms in all the lodging-houses which are under the supervision of the Police
have been re-measured, and that in most of them a cubic space of 300 feet
has been allotted to each bed; and I am further informed, that on every
new application for the registration of a lodging-house, a space of 300 cubic
feet for each bed will be insisted on.
Offensive Streets and Places.
In consequence of the offensive smell in some of the narrow and overcrowded
streets, occasioned by the dirty habits of the people, who, instead
of conveying the slops and refuse of their houses to proper drains and
receptacles, throw them into the roadways, I have given directions to have
such places watered with a weak solution of carbolic acid, and have intimated,
by public notice, that all persons detected in throwing filth upon the public
way will be prosecuted. These proceedings have been attended with very
good results. The following streets, viz., Goulston-street, Wontworth-street,
and Middlesex-street, arc watered twice daily with the carbolic acid solution;
Fashion-street and Plower and Dean-street are thus watered once daily; the
Railway Arches and Phoenix-street three times a week; and some other
streets, viz., Glasshouse-street, Blue Anchor yard, Cartwright-street, and
Darby street, are watered every Saturday with the same solution.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street,