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Many rooms were again fonnd to be in a filthy and
disgraceful state on account of the neglect of the occupiers.
In 175 such cases notices were served on the tenants.
The bakehouses were twice inspected during the year,
and the nuisances found were abated.
During the year the Metropolitan Asylums Board was
able to receive all the cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, and
typhoid fever, that required to be removed to their hospitals.
The treatment of diphtheria by anti-toxic serum still
continues to give verv satisfactory results, which have been
confirmed by an enquiry by a committee of the Clinical
Society.
Under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
the two middle blocks of Barnham Street Buildings were
represented by me as "obstructive buildings." For further
details see pages 20 and 21.
A very large amount of unsound food, including 195 tons
of decomposed potatoes, were, at the request of the owners,
removed by the Board as trade refuse and destroyed. In
addition, 200 tons of decomposed potatoes were condemned,
and removed for destruction by the owners.
The regular removal of house refuse has for many years
compared favourably with that of any London district. The
streets and courts have, as usual, been regularly cleansed,
and the walls of the public courts have been twice limewhited
during the year.