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Effect has been given to this recommendation to a certain
extent, many of the yards having been paved, wholly or
in part, in a more or less satisfactory manner. The paving of
yards is one of the matters dealt with in your Vestry's byelaws,
the tenth of the series requiring, in respect of " any yard
or open space, where it is necessary for the prevention or
remedy of insanitary conditions that all or part of such yard,
or open space shall be paved," that it shall be paved forthwith
by the owner of the dwelling-house with which such yard
or open space is connected. It will be observed that the
paving of yards is prescribed "for the prevention or remedy of
insanitary conditions," a fact which is often lost sight of. That
paving is " necessary " for this purpose is indubitable, and on
this account I have been insistent in pressing the matter,
from time to time, upon the attention of the Sanitary Committee.
I venture to think that more would be done in this
direction, by sanitary authorities generally, if due weight
were attached to the hygienic importance of cleanliness in
the surroundings of dwelling-houses, a matter to which attention
was specially directed in the last annual report (page 146),
the authority of the Medical Officer of the Local Government
Board being cited in support of the views therein expressed.