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On all of these grounds, there is no disease, the existence
of which, more imperatively demands a visit from the Inspector
than this; and it must be manifest that cleansing of
bedding, walls and ceilings, and of the drains and closets,
and other lurking places, together with a thorough airing of
the infected apartments is the best; and is in fact an almost
certain mode of checking the disease.
Considering then that two deaths from scarlet fever occurred
in this house in October, and that cases occurred of
"febricula" "sore throat," and "dropsy after scarlet fever,"
in the same house, 17 cases of illness altogether; and that
the rooms in which the scarlet fever patients died, had not
been emptied or cleansed (as was alleged by the occupiers)
for two years at the least, it became a clear matter of duty
to call upon the owner to cleanse these rooms at the least;
and on his peremptory refusal, the Local Authority ordered
him to be summoned to Marlborough Street.
He accordingly appeared before the Magistrate on the
19th of November, to answer to the complaint of having
premises in such a state as to be a nuisance and injurious to
health;—and tried to set aside the proceedings-on technical
grounds. The Magistrate, however, without listening to his
objections, advised him to comply with the wish of the Local
Authority, and adjourned the case for a fortnight to give
him the opportunity of so doing. During this fortnight the
work was done. The case is valuable as a precedent.
Mount Row, No. 8. This house had become thoroughly
dirty, dilapidated, and offensive; the water closets out oforder,
and pavement of yard broken. The Committee ordered
it to be cleansed, and directed legal proceedings if necessary.
Mount Street, No. 3. Here a leakage through the wall,
from an ill-constructed water closet apparatus at No. 2, has
been rectified.