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was stated to have entered the house, was found a
water butt containing a quantity of stagnant water and
decomposed vegetable matter of a most offensive nature.
After its removal there was no further complaint.
Fishmongers have had due attention. Three having
being fined 40s., 20s. and 10s., respectively, for throwing
fish offal into the streets, and for one, a magistrate's order
was obtained to restrain him from creating a nuisance to his
neighbours by allowing fish offal to accumulate on his
premises.
Orders of the Board were made to abate nuisances
arising from accumulations of vegetable matter, &c., on
land in Park Road, New Wandsworth, and at the rear of
Nos. 39 and 41, High Street.
The Company laying out new streets on the Bolingbroke
Park Estate, were ordered to discontinue using
dust-bin refuse and vegetable matter for making up the
roads, and in each case the orders were obeyed.
A serious case of Typhoid Fever broke out in a family
in Home Road causing death in one case and serious illness
to four other children, the whole of which had, undoubtedly,
caught the disease from a bed which had been
thrown on some public ground in the Latchmere Road, on
which they had all been playing. A reward of 20s. was
at once offered by the Board, and handbills circulated
cautioning any person against throwing infected bedding
in public places.
The bulk of the sanitary work carried out will be
best shown by reference to the following abstract;—