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purposes throughout, except while walking through the
streets, when they are to be carried in a bag provided for the
purpose.
W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.),
F.R.C.P. (London),
Medical Officer of Health.
10, Bolton Row, Mayfair, W.,
June, 1880.
The total number of complaints attended to and of notices
served was somewhat higher than last year, as also was the
number of houses disinfected after cases of infectious disease,
owing to the continuation of the scarlet fever epidemic, and
the slight increase of small-pox.
It was not necessary to take out any summons, as all the
notices were complied with.
The markets have been regularly inspected, and kept in
good order, it having been necessary to condemn only 8 cases
of articles of food exposed for sale.
A consignment of about 800 hares from Hungary proving
a nuisance to the persons in the house over the store, I
insisted on their being at once removed.
The alteration in the fall of some of the sewers in the
neighbourhood of St. George's Square and Grosvenor Road
has been carried out, so that they no longer discharge into
the river.
My attention was called by the Medical Officer of Health
for the Port of London to the existence of two foul outfalls
at Chelsea Bridge; I found that they were from the
water-closets at the old toll houses, and that these were
being temporarily used by some workmen employed by the
Metropolitan Board of Works: at my request the use of
them was abandoned, and other arrangements made.
The improvements to the water supply to the closets in
the Lumley, Coleshill, and Ebury Model Dwellings, which I