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The Committee were of opinion that "these yards should
be asphalted or paved," and the first' of their recommendations,
all of which were approved by your Vestry, was to the following
effect—
"That it be referred to the Works and Sanitary Committee
to have notices served upon the owners or
occupiers of the houses in the several streets....
requiring them to asphalte, or pave with impervious
material, the yards, in the rear of such houses, which
are not in a proper condition."
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 bye-laws, made under the provisions of section
16 (1) (d) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 ; the tenth
bye-law reading as follows :—
"As to the paving of yards and open spaces in connection
with dwelling-houses.
"The owner of any dwelling-house in connection with
which there is any yard or open space shall, 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, forthwith cause the
same to be properly paved with a hard, durable,
and impervious pavement, evenly and closely laid
upon a sufficient bed of good concrete, and so
sloped to a properly constructed channel as effectually
to carry off all rain or waste water therefrom;
and he shall cause such pavement to be kept in
proper repair."