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Number of rooms found to be overcrowded, the space being less than
300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning 2 children under 10 87
years of age for one adult, nuisance abated
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 31
Houses specially visited 115
Ditto specially re-visited 460
Ditto registered by order of the Board 13
Certificates and copies of same prepared for the registration of the
above houses 39
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 24
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 311
Compulsory orders issued embracing 75 premises 45
Summonses heard at police courts 2
Workshops specially visited 42
Ditto specially re-visited 2 7
Copies of the Workshops' Regulation Act distributed 47
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 304
Ventilation of houses improved 4
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 127
Drains in houses unproved 119
Dustbins provided 23
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 139
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 77
Water-waste preventers erected 11
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 6
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 12
The cow-houses iu the District, 24, and the slaughter-houses, 39 in
number, have been visited during the Quarter.
Nuisances caused by the accumulation of dung and other offensive
matter, and from stopped privies, are very numerous. These are not
recorded in the Books of the Inspectors unless official notices are served.
Water Supply.
The question of an improved system of water supply is now engaging
public attention, and it is probable that in the course of the ensuing session
it will receive due attention from Parliament. The most important point for
discussion is how far it is advantageous and practicable to supply all the
houses in London with water on the constant service, instead of the present
system, which is partly on the constant and partly on the intermittent
service.
It has been most satisfactorily proved in this District, that the poorer
class of houses can be supplied with water on the constant service,
without the use of either butts or cisterns. There are now in this District