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SANITARY CHRONICLES, 1896.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT.
Under the housing of the Working Classes Act the
following premises were reported as being in a state unfit
for habitation:—
No. 31, Nightingale Street.
Annexe to No. 1, Upper Rathbone Place.
8, Union Street, L.G.
19, Orcus Street.
The annexe to No. 1, Upper Rathbone Place was
voluntarily closed by the owner.
Magistrates' Orders were obtained closing the other
houses.
The owner of No. 8, Union Street, repaired the
premises throughout and put them in a sanitary condition,
and the house is now occupied.
No. 31, Nightingale Street, and No. 19, Orcus Street,
still remain closed.
Prosecutions under the Public Health (London) Act.
Prosecutions for disobedience of Vestry Orders with
regard to draining the premises were undertaken with
regard to 62, Maida Vale; 13, Richmond Street, and 74,
Salisbury Street.
The owners of four kitchens in Lisson Grove were
summoned for permitting the kitchens to be illegally
occupied. The summonses were adjourned sine die on the
understanding that such occupation should cease.
A resident of Gloucester Place was prosecuted and
fined for sending a person suffering from scarlet fever
in a public conveyance.
An Order was obtained in the case of a child,
convalescing from scarlet fever in a tenement house, for
compulsory removal to hospital.