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of Street's Buildings, May's Buildings, and Lancashire
Court, which resulted in my reporting Lancashire Court to
the Metropolitan Board of Works as a suitable area to be
dealt with under the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings
Act, 1875. The Metropolitan Board, however, declined to
deal with it under that Act; and various sanitary improvements
have been carried out at several of the houses since.
Several cases of enteric fever occurred in Grosvenor
Mews during September, soon after the commencement of
extensive alterations in the sewerage of a large block of
buildings; by thorough disinfection, with suitable sanitary
improvements in some of the houses, the epidemic was
stamped out; but I would take this opportunity of urging
that when any such alterations to drains, &c., are contemplated,
the sanitary officers ought to be made aware of it.
The slaughter-houses, cow-sheds and bakehouses of the
Parish are regularly inspected, and kept in a cleanly state.
No license was opposed by the Vestry at the annual
licensing of slaughter-houses and cow-sheds, but the license
of one slaughter-house was withheld on account of noncompliance
with a bye-law of the Metropolitan Board of
Works.
I am happy to be able to say that the helmet making
in the Government cap factory, which has been a considerable
nuisance to the inhabitants of Claverton Street,
Pimlico, from the vapour of naphtha which escaped, has
been removed to a part of the premises where it is much
less likely to cause any nuisance.
I have analyzed the water supplied by the Grand
Junction and Chelsea Water Companies from time to time,
and found it to be of average purity, except during the
winter months, when the filtration was inefficient, on account
of the heavy floods in the river.