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Gas Lighting.
11. 127 additional Gas Lamps have been erected, and the
lighting of the whole District revised.
Street Cleansing and Removal of House Refuse.
12. The Board continues to approve the system of daily
cleansing the surface of the streets, and of rapidly removing the
House Refuse, and takes this opportunity of calling upon the
inhabitants of the District to lend their aid individually in preventing
the improper and illegal use of rain-water pipes, which
the Board regrets to observe are in some streets used as soil pipes
for the discharge of offensive matter on the public pavements:
the Board also requests the co-operation of the inhabitants in
carrying out the suggestions with reference to cleansing, contained
in a Notice which has been extensively circulated throughout the
parishes.
Street Watering.
13. Allusion has already been made to the reduced cost of this
service; and it is therefore unnecessary to do more in this place
than draw attention to the advantages enjoyed by the inhabitants
of this District, in which the whole of the streets are watered,
without reference to locality.
Sanitary Measures and Removal of Nuisances.
14. The Report of the Officer of Health, for the past year, is
annexed to this Report, and to this the Board desires to draw
particular attention.
The Board is glad to be able to report that, by the operation of
the "Metropolitan Market Act, 1857," applications for Licences
to Slaughter-houses are now made to the Justices in Petty Sessions,
instead of in the Court of Quarter Sessions as heretofore;
and that, in consequence, a considerable saving, both in time and
money, is gained, as well by applicants, as by the Board itself.
Notices of 37 applications were received for the last Licensing
day, 12 of which only were opposed by the Board; and of these,
9 were refused by the Magistrates, and no parties appeared in
support of the remaining 3.