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whereby the areas of many houses are now drained which
before were flooded and poisoned by mepliitic gas. Great
good also has been effected by abolishing the Cow Yard and
Rubbish Dep6t in Wilmot Street, and by erecting cottages
on their site. The collection too of road mud, dust and
dung, in the yard of Mr. Rook, by Gibraltar Walk has,
through magisterial influence, been removed. The manufacture
likewise of Manure under the Railway Arch, No. 87,
which—though stopped two years ago, was re-established on
a larger scale—is now altogether done away. And happily,
manure is no longer baked at Digby Street in Baker's Yard.
The Slaughter Houses have had due attention; Pig keeping
in many instances has been prevented, and two cellar dwellings
have been closed. Moreover, the carcass of a diseased
cow about to be chopped into sausage meat was condemned,
and cut up at a boiling-house for dogs.
A handsome Drinking Fountain, surmounted with the
appropriate motto, Health, Strength, and Peace flow from
me," has been erected on the Green, and presented to the
Parish by J. D. Link, Esquire.
Numerous nuisances from Boiling of Meat, Melting of
Fat, and Smoking of Fish, have, as far as practicable, been
remedied and abated. These, with the erection of 4 new
houses in Hammond's Gardens, the paving of Fountain Alley
and other parts, the filling up of the ditch in Bridge Road,
the drainage of certain streets where water flowed in wet
weather from the yards to the shops, where the soil was .uo
damp that the fowls died "mildewed;" the re-supply of
water to Prospect Terrace whence it was off some months;
with the sewer, drain, cesspool, and other works in Table 12,
constitute our Progress in 1859.
Though we know not how many lives sanitation has saved,
nor what widowhood, orphanage, and pauperism it has
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