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INFLUENZA.
Fourteen deaths were registered as due to
influenza, against 5 deaths in the previous year. No
official action was taken in reference to this complaint.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
During last year the Public Health Committee
registered 216 "houses let in lodgings or occupied by the
members of more than one family." Upon the registration
of the premises a copy of the Bye-laws of your Vestry
under which such houses are registered, was forwarded to
the landlord (within the meaning of the Bye-laws) for his
guidance. At the meeting of your Public Health Committee,
held on June 28th, I advised "that the District
Inspectors be instructed to visit and inspect the registered
premises once in each quarter, and to report to your Committee
as to whether they are kept in accordance with the
Bye-laws." Your Public Health Committee decided not
to adopt my advice. I have no doubt that it will be
found to be absolutely necessary to employ a seperate
Inspector to carry out this work.
VESTRY'S DUST SHOOT AT THE WHARF
CHANCELLORS.
With the object of preventing a repetition of the
complaint which had previously been received of a
nuisance from the depositing of dust and house refuse in
barges at your Wharf Chancellors, on June 20th I
advised "that the Surveyor be instructed to have the
said refuse sprinkled with a solution of permanganate of
potash as heretofore. Your Committee adopted my advice,
and no complaint was made of a nuisance from the depositing
of the refuse during the whole of the summer.
NUISANCE AT THE ROAD CAR COMPANY'S STABLES,
HAMMERSMITH ROAD.
In consequence of serious complaints which I
received of a nuisance from the premises of the Road Car
Company in Hammersmith Road, on August 4th, I