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Health of the District.
The mortality of the past three months has been unusually
low. This is mainly clue to a decided fall in deaths
from diarrhoea and from zymotic diseases generally, as
compared with former years. Small-pox was practically
absent, and there are grounds for hope that there will be no
recurrence of the epidemic. On the other hand, the, cool,
wet, dull summer appears to have been favourable for
inflammatory diseases of the intestines, and also for typhoid
fever. Scarlet fever is shown by the curve opposite page 107
to be on the increase, being far above the average, and still
rising.
Nightingale Street.
The Notices of the London County Council requiring
the inhabitants to vacate the premises have now expired.
For the time the London County Council stand in the
technical position of "owners," and from a reliable source
of information the writer understands that the officers of
that (Council are empowered to close as soon as practicable
the worst houses, and to make a few others temporarily
habitable while the work of reconstruction goes on. The
writer has had an opportunity of seeing the plans for the
new Nightingale Street buildings. These, when constructed,
will add yet another block of Artizans' Dwellings to the
district, and at least house, under favourable conditions, as
great a number of persons as those who have been displaced
by the scheme.
Prosecutions under the Public Health (London) Act.
The owner of Ncs. 10 and 13, Hereford Street, was
summoned for disobedience of a sanitary notice ; but as the
work was in progress at the time of hearing, the Magistrate
adjourned the case for 28 days. The owner of
No. 314, Edgware Road, was summoned for neglecting to
provide suitable drainage for the premises. An order was