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In one the water had been cut off on account ot nonpayment
of water-rate, and a nuisance was produced by the
state of the water-closet; the magistrate granted five days
for the defendant to pay the rate and get the water put on,
and mulcted him in the costs; this had the desired effect.
In the other a variety of sanitary defects had to be
remedied, and the magistrate made an order and fined the
defendant 25s. and costs; the work was executed within the
fourteen days allowed.
The markets have been regularly inspected and kept in
good order, so that it has only been necessary to condemn
food exposed for sale in one case.
The slaughter-houses and cow-houses have been also
regularly inspected, and kept in good condition. No application
for a license has been opposed; but licenses were
not applied for in the cases of one slaughter-house and one
cow-house.
Your Committee of "Works decided to memorialise the
Government as to the desirability of replacing the duty
of inspecting the bake-houses in the metropolis in the hands
of the Sanitary Authorities; this has since been done by
" The Factory and Workshop Act, 1883," and the bakehouses
are now regularly inspected and kept in a cleanly
condition.
On account of a communication from the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, with regard to Lancashire
Court, New Bond Street, which I had formerly reported as
an area suitable to be dealt with under the " Artisans and
Labourers' Dwellings' Act, 1875," I made a special inspection
of that Court, and prepared a report, showing that
nearly the whole of the houses there had been since
converted into workshops, and that no overcrowding existed
in any part of the court; this report was adopted by your
Committee of Works, and forwarded to the Secretary of
State.
In view of the existence of Cholera in Egypt, I thought
it desirable to commence preparations for a possible outbreak
of it in London in 1884, and accordingly searched