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Underground Rooms.
The Vestry, by a large majority, adopted a Report,
dated April 12th, by the writer, pointing out that a considerable
number of kitchens were still " separately"
occupied, notwithstanding that an intimation calling
attention to their illegal occupation had been sent to the
owners, and suggesting that legal proceedings should be
taken to enforce the law.
This action is the final decision of the Vestry, and it
necessarily follows that all dwellings in the district must
henceforth be occupied strictly in accordance with the
statute. On the other hand, there are valid and obvious
reasons why there should be no simultaneous and wholesale
change of occupancy. The emptying of habitations occupied
for twenty or thirty years may well be spread over a
twelvemonth.
A Case of Pork Poisoning.
On the 28th March a family in Chapel Street, consisting
of father, mother, a boy aged 11, and a girl aged 5, partook
about mid-day of boiled pork and fowl. The pork had
been bought on the previous day (Saturday) from a butcher
in the district of Paddington.
In the early hours of Monday morning the father, the
boy, and the girl, were seized with cholpraic symptoms, and
at 2.30 on Monday afternoon the mother became similarly
affected, but in a lesser degree. Dr. Dodds, at 11 a.m. of
that day, found the boy and the girl with high temperature,
the father with choleraic symptoms, cramp, numbness of
the feet and hands, and smarting of the eyes. The
father, the mother, and the boy got better by about
Tuesday, but the girl by Wednesday morning was almost
pulseless, with cold extremities, and very nearly died.
She, however, revived, and ultimately recovered.
Mr. Gorniot, the Sanitary Inspector, brought the pork
to the writer on the Wednesday, that is four days after it
was bought, three days after it had been boiled. At that