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Annual Report), was only finally determined at the October Quarter
Sessions of 1885.
The judgment on that occasion was delivered by the Assistant
Judge, Mr. Edlin, and the Appellant was relieved from the payment of
the penalties and costs referred to, the conviction against him being
quashed in consideration of his having kept the promise he made
to the Judge at the first hearing of the appeal of paying the £30
contribution to the Constructors of the Islington Sewer in Southcotc
Road, and of carrying out the works necessary for connecting the
two sewers and thus abating the nuisance.
Both the Vestry and the Appellant were directed to pay their own
costs.
Of course such decisions may be an easy method of solving
difficulties, but they are not in any sense calculated to encourage Local
Authorities in the exercise of the powers conferred upon them by the
Sanitary Acts, which it is their duty to administer and enforce.
THE DWELLINGS OF THE POOR.
Referring to the 14 different properties described in my last year's
Report, page 25, and consisting of 76 houses, I may now further
report that the houses in Mildmay Avenue (7) have been
thoroughly renovated and are being re-occupied. Some of
these houses have, in fact, been almost rebuilt. The houses in Broad
Yard (7) are at the present time also undergoing extensive alterations
and improvements. The houses in Elliott's Place (7) and in
Providence Place (7), all of which still remain closed, are the only
properties which at the present moment are undealt with.
THE VESTRY'S SANITARY STAFF.
The record of our Sanitary work would not, however, be complete
without some special reference to the addition which has been made
by the Yestry to their Sanitary Staff, and, as the best mode of doing
this, I therefore incorporate herewith the Report of the Sanitary