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DUST AND REFUSE.
Dust and ordinary refuse are removed by persons who have
entered into contract with the Vestry for the effectual and speedy
removal of the same, when deposited. The roads and streets are
cleansed under the direction of the Surveyor to the Vestry, and the
arrangements made for the purpose appear to be efficient and
satisfactory.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
From the accommodation afforded by the existence, within a
practicable distance, of several markets for the sale of meat, slaughtering
is carried on, in a degree, not at all corresponding to the amount of
animal food consumed. The slaughter houses your Medical Officer has
visited have been, with very few exceptions, well drained and cleansed,
and are conducted in a manner so as not to be noxious to health. It
will be necessary to be vigilant in maintaining their present state of
cleanliness during the ensuing season of hot weather, when very trifling
causes, by being superadded to others, may occasion a rapid spread of
disease and mortality.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.
Fublic baths and wash-houses have not yet found a place in the
Hamlet. Those who use baths travel some distance to establishments
in other districts. Washing of linen among the poorer class is so
conducted, in most cases, through the force of circumstances, as to add
greatly to the dampness and unhealthincss of their dwellings.
BURIAL PLACES.
Burial places, which were not long since numerous, have become
reduced to three in number. Two of them are spacious—the Tower
Hamlets' Cemetery, containing 30 acres, and the Jews' burying ground
in the Mile End Road, containing about 11 acres.* That belonging to
* There is also a small burying ground in Globe Fields, used by the members
of tlie Jewish religion belonging to the synagogue in Maiden Lane.