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February 15, 1850.—An underground dwelling in
York Place reported as unfit for habitation.
March, 1856.—Public health reported above the
average. Prevailing epidemics—typhus fever and hooping
cough. Table of deaths and diseases referred to.
The deaths in the Workhouse and Charing Cross Hospital
are distinguished by separate columns.
The state of the vaults under the Church and Vestry
House described. In consequence of effluvia rising
into the Vestry Room, the coffins in the vault below
were removed to one of the catacombs. No great
inconvenience occurred; and it was recommended that
all outlying coffins should be collected into one catacomb,
which should then be bricked up. The question
of removing the bodies to a cemetery was agitated, but
given up as impracticable. The only course that can
be adopted is to close the entrances to all the vaults by
impermeable brick-work, and to cut off the staircase
communication between the body of the Church and
the vaults. The Church-yard recommended to be
planted with trees—the roots of which would absorb
matter from the old Church-yard, and thus make what
is now a nuisance ornamental and heathful.
April, 1856.—The monthly report of the health of
the district not quite so favorable. Measles frequent
in some localities.
Various parts of the Parish pointed out and improvements
recommended. Suggestions to landlords to keep
their houses in as good order as the common lodginghouses
now are under the superintendence of the police.
Insufficiency of the supply of water complained of in
Bedfordbury, etc. Prince's Court pointed out as an
opprobium to the Parish. Ivy Bridge Lane and others
recommended to be flushed with water
May, 1856.—Public health very favorable—no prevailing
Epidemic. The docks in Scotland Yard