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and Liverpool Local Acts, under which so much has been done
and at a relatively less cost to the community than under
the general Statute.
PROSECUTIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH
(LONDON) ACT.
Considering the number of notices and intimations under
the Public Health (London) Act, the necessity for enforcing
them by prosecutions are very few in number. For the most
part sanitary notices have been executed promptly and without
even questioning their justness.
No. 3, Little Marylebone Street was found to be without
a responsible owner. The drains were choked and there
was no water supply. A magistrate's order was obtained
for closing the premises. The house was fully occupied by
various families. All except one family quickly removed
without trouble. This family consisted of a man, his wife
and six children. They stopped on, declaring that they could
not find lodgings elsewhere. This no doubt was true, it is
becoming more and more difficult for a working man with a
young family of five or six to obtain any kind of lodging
in the central districts. The case was obliged to be brought
before the magistrate who ordered a penalty of 40s. a day from
a certain date in February, the fine not to be enforced if the
premises were vacated within 18 days. The family within
the time stated removed from the premises which were then
properly secured.
No. 25, Harcourt Street was similarly found to be without
a responsible owner ; the general sanitary state was bad and
there was no water supply to the premises. A closing order
was obtained.
The house in Little Marylebone Street is still closed
no owner having come forward. The house in Harcourt
Street is at present undergoing considerable reparation in
order to make suitable Club premises.
The occupier of a house in Marylebone Lane was fined
and prosecuted for the at first sight trivial offence of placing
an improper receptacle on the kerb. The practice of putting
the refuse collected daily from the leading streets in uncovered
receptacles of all kinds and sizes has, however, been a constant
source of nuisance. Not alone does the dust blow about the
street, but to see slop buckets, old jugs, decaying hampers,
egg boxes and so forth is an offence to the eye.