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Your Committee are of opinion that it is advisable to appoint two
additional sanitary inspectors to make a house-to-house inspection of the
1,000 houses referred to, and that the rooms of some be properly measured
up and registered as houses let in lodgings, and the bye-laws enforced ; also .
when these houses have been put into a proper sanitary condition, the
services of the inspectors proposed to be appointed should be transferred to
other sanitary districts where similar circumstances exist and the same
course adopted there.
Your Committee recommend that two additional sanitary inspectors be
appointed, and if approved, that your Committee be empowered to submit
the usual proposal for such appointments to the Local Government Board,
and if allowed by that Board, that they be also empowered to advertise for
candidates and bring up six for selection by the Vestry.
All which is respectfully submitted.
HENRY HULLAND, Chairman.
The Vestry agreed to the appointment of two additional
inspectors, and I have no doubt that during 1898 great progress will
be made in the registration and control of this class of dwellings.
HACKNEY WICK.
This part of the district has received particular attention during
the year, and much progress has been made in remedying the dampness
and general insanitary condition of the houses in this locality.
The promised relief to the sewers is much needed. During the
summer certain parts of the district were flooded on two occasions,
doing damage to the property and inconveniencing the tenants
greatly. Moreover, the danger to tenants from sewage flooding was
not inconsiderable.
POLLUTION OF THE RIVER LEA.
The condition of this river as it passes through Hackney continues
to give rise to complaints, and to cause anxiety to those responsible
for the public health. Efforts have been made by the
Walthamstow and Leyton Authorities to improve the effluents which
enter the Lea in this district, but with doubtful success so far as the
pollution of the river is concerned. The state of the river may be
said to be much the same as last year; and this may be seen by