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Kent's Terrace, Strattondale Street, 1 to 7.
Strattondale Street, 19 to 25.
Marshfield Street, 9 to 12 and 23, 24 and stable.
Glengall Road, 90, 92, 94, 61, 110, and area drain, 75, 77.
Johnson Street, 2, main.
East Ferry Road, 10.
Chipka Street, 39.
Havannah Street, 12, 14.
In 11 instances, plans were submitted in accordance with the
Board's drain regulations.
Notices had been served requiring the abatement of a great
nuisance arising from the foul condition of the piggeries situate at
the G. E. R. arches, East Ferry Road, caused by the improper feeding
and keeping of swine. As the notices had not been complied with
together with yourself, I visited the premises prior to applying for a
a summons at the Police Court. This resulted in your communicating
with the Railway Company, who in response gave the proprietor of
the piggeries three months notice to give up the premises. In the
meantime, swine fever had broken out necessitating the slaughtering
of over 100 pigs. The styes had since been demolished, the
woodwork, tarred or burnt and the premises limewashed, and
pig keeping permanently discontinued. By your direction and in
response to complaint, special inspection had been made of all the
piggeries on the Cubitt Town Allotment Gardens, a large number of
notices had been served, requiring a properly drained concreted
bottom to stye, etc. These in every case had received attention either
by executing the works specified on the notices or by discontinuing
pig keeping altogether.
Under the Public Health, London Act, 1891, Police Court
proceedings had been taken in pursuance of the Board's orders of
authorization against the owners of the under-mentioned premises,
for disregarding the Board's notices, with the following results.—