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work carried out under the Nuisances Removal Acts
showed the willingness of the owners of property to
render their houses healthy and habitable by carrying
out the requirements of the Sanitary Authority. Six
pig nuisances were removed by order of the Board, and
the voluntary breaking up of Mr. Lucy's establishment
in Doddington Grove may be said to complete the total
extinction of pig keeping in Eastern Battersea.
Scarcely a complaint was made during the year of
bad meat or fish having been exposed for sale in the
public streets which may be attributed to the sharp
outlook which has been kept, and to the fact that
dealers are now beginning to understand that the
Inspector of nuisances will condemn unwholesome food,
and provided it is brought to his notice as soon as it is
discovered, and before it has been offered for sale, will
give a certificate enabling them to recover its value from
the original vendors.
In conjunction with the Surveyor an inspection of
26 to 34, Sleaford Street, and of No. 89, Battersea Park
Road was made, the premises were found to be dilapidated
and unfit for human habitation, and with a view to their
being put into thorough repair, notices were served and
the necessary works carried out.
Eight cases of overcrowding came under notice and
were dealt with. One occurring at No. 22, Gladstone
Street was of a most aggravated character, viz.:—Two
basement rooms, containing 1855 cubic feet, were found
to be occupied by eleven persons—a man his wife, 5
daughters aged 7, 16, 18, 20 and 23 years respectively,
and two sons aged 9 and 25 years respectively, and 2
young children of one of the daughters. The space for
each person to live and sleep in being about 180 cubic
feet.