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Greenwich 1893

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1894

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in his judgment, they were rendered fit for that purpose. Under
this order the whole of these houses were closed.
The Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich also made
representations under the same Act with reference to Nos. 2, 4, 6,
8, 10, 12, 14 and 16, Cold Bath Street, to Nos. 59, 61, 73, 75, 77 and
79, Church Street, to No. 12, Trinity Street, and to Nos. 6, 7 and 8,
Wood Wharf, all in the Parish of Greenwich, and notices being
served, the owners of the premises voluntarily closed them, and
the houses referred to in Cold Bath Street, and the house in
Trinity Street, were subsequently pulled down.
Proceedings were taken against a lad for unlawfully damaging
a tree in the St. Alphage Recreation Ground, also for throwing
stones so as to endanger the public in that Ground, and for the
first offence he was fined 6d., and ordered to pay 1s. for damage
and 2s. costs, and for the second he was fined 6d. and 2s. costs.
During the year Mr. Arthur Bache was appointed as an
additional Sanitary Inspector for the Parish of Greenwich, and
Mr. Charles William Nettleton as an additional Sanitary Inspector
to act in the Parishes of Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas, Deptford;
and Mr. Charles Turle Wilson, who was originally appointed an
Inspector of Nuisances for the Parish of Greenwich, under the
provisions of the Metropolis Management Acts and the Nuisances
Removal Acts, and Mr. Thomas Turner, who was similarly
appointed as an Inspector of Nuisances for the Parish of Saint
Paul, Deptford, were re-appointed as Sanitary Inspectors for those
Parishes, respectively, within the meaning of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.