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with much benefit and comfort to the public health. The work of
the Sanitary department had increased to such an extent, that in the
early part of the year an additional appointment was made by the
election of Mr. W. Raymond, as Assistant Sanitary Clerk. There has
also been afforded increased office accommodation, so as to relieve
the over-crowded condition of the rooms devoted to the Sanitary
officers.
In my report to the Committee on June 28th, I pointed out, that if
the number of inspections as carried out by the Inspectors be maintained,
it would take three years to complete the inspection of the
District. I suggested to the Committee, that, should this space of
time not meet with their approval, additional Inspectors be appointed.
There was no resolution passed to the effect that the Committee was
not satisfied with the amount of work executed.
Many important structural alterations have taken place in the
District for the good of the public health. The houses in Duffs
Fields have been demolished, and those on the east side of Robinhood
Lane have been pulled down, to give space for the gradient to
the new Blackwall Tunnel, the boring of which under the Thames is
rapidly nearing completion; several houses have been demolished at
the eastern extremity of the East India Dock Road, to afford room
for the new street made by the County Council, leading from the
southern end of the Abbott Road behind Lea Place. New model
buildings have been erected by the London County Council on land
facing the river Thames, and the occupied portion of Arnold's
Buildings (67 tenements) has been closed by a Magistrate's order.
The Local Government Board have decided that the area known as
the Ann Street area is an insanitary one, the official inquiry it will be
remembered having been held in June 1893.
A sewer connected with the main drainage system has been laid
down in the Orchard House District, to prevent the sewage of that
region being discharged into the rivers Lea and Thames. The
County Council, at the Abbey Mills Station, have erected two new