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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
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County Council's bye-laws relating to the provision,
situation and cleansing of receptacles for dung, and
compliance therewith requested by the end of 1893.
In each instance the necessary work has been put in
hand.
The number of houses and workshops inspected
during the year was 3,094, and in 707 of these, works
of sanitary amendment have been carried out. Six
underground rooms inhabited separately as dwellings
and not complying with the legal requirements have
been closed. Overcrowding has been abated in 56
tenements in 33 houses under your Board's order.
5,992 visits to premises have been made by your
Sanitary Staff during the year. The number of works
of sanitary improvement carried out are larger than in
1892, and include a number of extensive and complicated
schemes of re-drainage and re-construction.
Early in the year my attention was called, by an
analysis of the death-rate, to the condition of Meard Street,
Soho, and the leases of several of the houses falling in
during the year, steps were taken for a thorough overhauling
of the premises Nos. 8 to 20, while the houses on
both sides of the street have been re-drained, extra
waterclosets erected in better positions, the water supply
improved, and greater air space provided in the rear by
the removal of sheds, cisterns, old-fashioned dust bins,
&c. The work has been satisfactorily carried out under
the supervision of Inspector Fairey, who is now placed
in charge of the St. Anne, Soho, part of the District.
The Theatres and Music Halls* in the District have
*There are 12 Theatres and Music Halls wholly in the district and 4 partly
in the Strand, partly in St. Martin's parish.