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Under the Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, I gave a
certificate after inspection of Gordon Chambers, but was
unable to do so for two large blocks of dwellings for which
certificates were asked.
The corrected death-rate from all causes, and also that
from phthisis, continue to be higher than the rates for
London.
Statistics of the London Districts have shown that these
rates increase with an increase of the conditions that are
expressed by the word "overcrowding."
Efforts have been made to abate this recurring nuisance.
Last year 124 cases of overcrowding were dealt with. Now
that a house-to-house inspection of the greater part of the
District has been made, further efforts in this direction will
be made this year by having some of the houses let in lodgings
registered. This entails much work, as all the rooms
have to be measured, and their cubical contents recorded.
Preparations for this were begun last year (1896), as many
as 498 rooms of 238 dwellings having been so measured,
and a record kept for future use.
Many rooms were found to be in a filthy and disgraceful
condition on account of the neglect of the occupiers (especially
where there is overcrowding). 107 such rooms were
dealt with by notices served on the tenants with very beneficial
results.
The nuisance caused by an offensive trade—that of the
manufacture of articles from the windpipes, bladders, and
intestines of animals—at 6 Melior Street, has been abated.
This nuisance shows that other internal parts, such as the
windpipe and bladder, ought to have been included with the
gut or intestines of animals in the By-laws of the London