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From the chief diseases, of the zymotic class, there were
22 deaths, of which 15 were from scarlet fever, 2 from diphtheria,
2 from whooping cough, 2 from enteric fever, and 1
from diarrhœa.
Diseases of the respiratory system caused 15 deaths, and
those of the tubercular class 14.
Five inquests were held. Two deaths were not certified.
On the 27th ult., I seized 87 rabbits, and 2 boxes of fish—
the latter weighing about 10 stone—which were unfit for
human food. These articles had been delivered to the local
tradesmen in an unsound condition.
A very fair clearance of dust has been effected at the Vestry
Wharf.
On the 20th ult., I met the Sub-Committee of the Metropolitan
Board on Artizans Dwellings, to inspect the unhealthy
area near Snowsfields, which was the subject of an official
representation by Dr. Parker, dated 29th October, 1875.
The Committee directed my attention to a broken flag in the
pavement of Suffolk Place, and requested that I would report
the same to the Vestry. There was also a broken flag in lor
2 of the adjoining Courts.
Since then I have received the following letter, dated 31st
October. [Read.] During the 8 years that this area has
been under the consideration of the Metropolitan Board,
about 20 houses have been pulled down in Kirby Street, for
the erection of a Board School, and the various courts have
been kept in as clean and healthy a condition as possible,
through receiving the constant weekly supervision of the
Sanitary Inspector, but the close and badly ventilated condition
of Suffolk Place, Webb's Court, Palmer's Rents, Ship
and Mermaid Court and Row remain as before.
I do not know under what clause of the Artizans Dwelling
Act the Board require me to submit an amended representation.
The Board is of opinion that "some parts of the area
appear to be within the scope of the Act," and as Section 5
of the Act, (1875), provides that the local authority "may
exclude any part of the area in respect of which an official