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180
Brought forward 1,078
Drains ventilated or defective ventilating pipes renewed 14
Rain water pipes disconnected from drains or soil-pipes and
made to discharge over gully-traps 16
Proper water supply provided to houses 22
Defective roofs repaired 49
Defective guttering and rain water pipes repaired or renewed 61
Defective paving to floors of wash-houses repaired or renewed 16
Dirty walls of work-rooms cleansed 16
Proper manure receptacles provided (London County Council
by-laws) 3
Cases of over crowding abated 10
Accumulations of refuse, etc., removed 5
Areas re-paved and drained 2
Insufficiently ventilated space under wooden floors, remedied by
insertion in outer walls of proper air bricks 26
Underground dwellings improved 10
Nuisances from animals abated 9
Smoke nuisance abated 6
Total number of nuisances abated 1,343
The above list does not include a large number of improvements
which have been made by owners of houses and premises on which
Notices were served. In most cases where the drainage is repaired
or reconstructed the yards and areas are paved, cement plinths provided
to foot of walls, or pointing made good, and the ventilation
under floors improved.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
There are only four Licensed Slaughter-houses at present in use
in the Borough, viz.:—118, Church Street; 165, High Street; 70.
Mountgrove Road; 55, Neville Road. The license of the slaughter
house at No. 97, Church Street, has been withdrawn by the London