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Housing of the Working Classes Act.
Proceedings were taken, and a closing order obtained, against
the owner of No. 1a, Griffith's-buildings, Ridley-place; the
house has since been demolished. Nos. 1, 3 & 23, Chadwickstreet,
which were closed by order of the Magistrate during
the year 1895 until such time as they were made fit for human
habitation, have been put into such repair as will meet the
requirements of the Vestry, and have consequently been reopened.
Water Supply to Newly Erected Houses, &c.
During the past year the extension of a constant water
supply to a district bounded by Victoria-street, the Thames,
Page-street, Rochester-row, and Strutton-ground, has practically
been completed.
In St. Margaret's Parish, sixty certificates of proper water
supply to newly erected houses were granted, under sec. 48
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and in St. John's,
twenty-five certificates were given.
Under sec. 49, Notices were received 'from the Water
Company with respect to eleven occupied and seventeen
unoccupied houses.

Dr. Thorne in his report to the Local Government Board for
the year 1894-95 has again to deplore the growing amount of
default under the Vaccination Acts, the percentage of default
reached in respect of children born in the year 1892 being 14.9
for the whole country, 18.4 in the Metropolis, and 14.3 in the
provinces. Both these latter rates are more than double those
which prevailed six years previously.
With regard to the important question of vaccination, I
think it right and proper that I should include in this report a
compend of the final report of the Royal Commission on
Vaccination, which has been sitting for several years:-