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A complaint emanating from Mr. James Williams, of 7,
Roehampton Street, respecting an accumulation of clung on the
premises of Mr. Thomas Stephenson, having been reported to
me, I inspected the premises without however being enabled to
detect any such nuisance as would justify my interfering. The
windows of Mr. Williams' house are at some distance from the
dung-pit, and could, in my opinion, be only very remotely
affected. At the period of my visit, there did not exist any
nuisance.
In consequence of the late heavy rains, the Water Companies
have found it exceedingly difficult to filter the water sufficiently
to deprive it of all its organic products. I have, however,
satisfied myself, that although the water has been somewhat
cloudy, it was not in any manner unhealthy to drink.
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All those houses where Deaths have occurred from causes
within control have been examined, and in many instances the
drainage was out of order, and the premises required cleansing
and whitewashing, but the great evil which more than any
other tends to increase a communicable disease, arises as a
consequence of overcrowding, and this has been again detected
in instances where Deaths from Fever, Scarlet Fever, &c. have
occurred. In Carpenter Street, most of the houses are
dangerously overcrowded, and I have directed the Inspector
to take the sense of the Nuisances Removal Committee upon
the propriety of immediately giving notice to the landlord to
eject the tenants from those rooms where overcrowding exist,