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Section IV.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE PARISH.
The tabular statements prepared by the Sanitary Inspectors show
that in the home district 1523 separate premises were inspected by
them during 1900, 427 of this number being with reference to cases of
infectious disease. In Kensal Town, 507 premises have been inspected,
123 of this number being in reference to cases of infectious disease.
It has only been necessary to take legal proceedings in 38 cases
(see appended statement), to enforce the due carrying out of the
Vestry's notices under the Public Health (London) Act.
The subject of the housing and re-housing of the working classes
in the home district, on the expiration of the leases of their present
dwellings, to which allusion was made in my annual report for 1899,
has again been the subject of very careful consideration by the Public
Health Committee during 1900, and reports have been presented to the
Vestry on the subject. It is gratifying to know that the new Borough
Council has shown no less appreciation of the great importance of the
issues involved to very large classes of Chelsea's present population,
than did its predecessor, the Vestry; and that the Public Health
Committee of the Borough Council is empowered to continue the
necessary investigations, in order to report to the Council as to the
expediency of adopting Part III. of the Housing of the "Working
Classes Act, 1890, with a view to the provision of lodging houses for
the working classes, either within or outside the Borough, under tho
powers conferred in the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
the Committee being also empowered to enter into negotiations for tho
acquisition of sites.
Combined Drainage.—Twenty-one systems of combined drainage,
for which the owners were responsible, were sanctioned by the Vestry
in the course of 1900. In addition, 3 systems of combined drainage,
which were sewers for which the Vestry was responsible, were executed
at the cost of the latter body.

The total amount previously expended by the Vestry on similar
works was £285 17s. 2d. (1896—99).
Drainage.—During the year, 175 new drains for single houses
have been reconstructed in accordance with the Vestry's drainage
regulations.