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It was further reported that District Sanitary Inspector
Marrable had seized three-quarters of a hundred-weight of
walnuts on Saturday night the 26th January, and conveyed them
to the South Western Police Court, where they were condemned
and afterwards destroyed. The owner gave the name of James
Richardson, 4, Cherwell Street. Subsequent inquiries, however,
failed to discover the owner, and the Sanitary Committee
decided that no further action should be taken in the matter.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector reported to the Committee
that Nos. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, Woodgate Street (the two latter
being empty), but Nos. 29 to 32 were occupied and in a very
dirty and dilapidated condition. In the fronts of the houses Nos.
29, 30, 32, the parapet walls had been pulled down, also portions
of the roof on account of dangerous condition, and upon inspection
he found the walls and ceilings extremely wet, the stack
pipes and guttering defective, the yards unpaved, cisterns
supplying directly the drinking water and water-closets, and the
treads of the stairs were so worn and the ballusters destroyed
so that their condition was dangerous to life and limb in passing
up or down stairs. A notice was served by order of the Sanitary
Committee with a view to ordering the same to be closed as
unfit for human habitation. The Railway Company having
taken the whole of the houses in question, they have since been
demolished.
Also with reference to Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
and 17, Belfour Street, which were in a seriously dirty and
dilapidated condition, the wash-houses especially being dangerous.
The owners were served with the necessary notices to put
same into sanitary condition, which have subsequently been
complied with. This property is inhabited by careless and
destructive people whose surroundings arc made insanitary
through their own filthy habits.