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By comparing the various rates with those given in the Table on
page 22 the notification and death rates will be found to stand
high, but then it must be borne in mind that the number of inhabitants
of model dwellings will vary from time to time.
I examined the water supply of the Council Buildings, and gave
the necessary certificate. I have likewise caused to be inspected the
105 cisterns which store the water for the supply of Grosvenor
Buildings. I wrote to the owner, forwarding him a copy of the
Board's Bye-laws and informing him that the cisterns required cleansing
; this matter was immediately put in hand. I also called his
attention to the covers of the cisterns not fitting accurately, these he
will also have rectified. At the beginning of the year the 542 sink
waste pipes were disconnected from the soil traps, trapped and made
to discharge over gullies by ventilated pipes.
The occupied portion of Arnold's Buildings (67 tenements) being
unfit for human habitation, I attended at the Police Court with Mr.
Dunn, the Sanitary Inspector, when the Magistrate made a closing
order. Constant complaints had been received concerning the state
of these dwellings, and the County Council in a letter to the Board
suggested that they might be placed under the bye-laws of houses, let
in lodgings.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
During the year some 671 common lodging houses in London