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In another case at No. 24, Stockdale Road, a small
six-roomed house was found to be occupied by five
families consisting of 28 persons. In all the cases
notices to abate were complied with.
A most offensive nuisance arising from a deposit of
fish offal with other animal and vegetable matter on
some land between the railway arches in Culvert Road
remained unabated for some time, a summons was
eventually taken out, the owner was fined and an order
made to abate the nuisance.
Three cases of Typhoid Eever occurred at No. 28,
Longhedge Street, and upon enquiry being made it was
found that the affected children had been freely drinking
water from a cistern that had stood full for some six or
nine months whilst the house was empty. At the time
of inspection, although the house had then been occupied
two or three weeks, the water was still stagnant
and offensive.
A costermonger was summoned and fined for
offering bad fish for sale on Saturday night the 6th of
May, in the Battersea Park Road, and the whole of his
stock-in-trade (about 200 haddocks)was destroyed.
In May an inspection of the bakehouses throughout
the parish was made, the result being that there were
found to be 40 bakehouses in East Battersea.
The sanitary condition of the bakehouses, with the
exception of four, particulars of which are given below,
may be described as fairly good. Lime whiting was
necessary in many instances and instructions were
given to carry this out. Twenty-six bakehouses were
without any communication with the drain, and therefore
removed from the possibility of sewer gas getting
in. In the other cases the drains were found to be
properly trapped.
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