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City of London 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898

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In 1889 another survey was made and duly
reported upon by me, with the same result.
In June, 1894, I reported again to the
Commissioners of Sewers, and gave certificates
of condemnation re Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7, after a
personal survey, and the houses were closed
accordingly.
None of these had any through ventilation,
and were in a ruinous state.
Agreeably to instructions by the Sanitary
Committee in September last (1898), I made
repeated surveys of the property, with the
following results, viz.:—
Nos. 1a, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
Montague Court, and No. 94, Bishopsgate Street
Without, were in fair structural condition, excepting
the last-named house.
Some of the houses in the court had had
new fronts built since 1889, prior to which they
were dilapidated and shored up with timber.