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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
This was also the case with the passage at rear of High Street,
Tooting, and that at rear of Colmer and Danbrook Roads, Streatham.
A large number of other small passages and rear entrance ways
have been inspected and where necessary notices were served for the
abatement of any nuisance. These notices were in every case complied
with.
The following reports on some of the passages were laid before
the Public Health Committee:—
11 th February, 1904.
Newton's Yard, in the parish of Wandsworth, consists of five
houses, occupied by 20 persons, and is approached from High Street
by a long passage which, in wet weather, is almost impassable.
Carter's Yard, also off High Street, contains four houses occupied
by 17 persons, and there are also two stables and back entrances
to two houses. All of yard is paved close to the houses, but the
rest is in a very bad state.
In Field's Alley, also off High Street, there are six houses
occupied by 19 persons, and this yard also is dirty and insanitary in
wet weather.
In the parish of Clapham, the two more important streets which
should be dealt with are Chariotte Place and Triangle Place, the
former containing seven houses occupied by 36 persons, and the latter
13 houses occupied by 95 persons. In the former also are three
factories, two workshops and stables, and in the latter one workshop
and stables. These streets are always in a very bad condition in wet
weather.
The roadway adjoining 16, Old Town, has been for some time in
a very dirty condition, and although there are inhabited houses in it,
there is a factory, a laundry, stables, and five back entrances to private
houses.
Great Acre Court is not in such a bad condition as it was at
one time tar paved, but the paving is very defective. The rain-water,