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Health of the District.
The weather of the four weeks has been favourable
to human life. The rate of deaths from chest affections
has been much below the average. Generally speaking,
with the exception of a short burst of scarlet fever and
diptheria during the second and third weeks, there has not
been so healthy a May for several years.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
No. 6, Gees Court having been allowed to fall into a
deplorable state of dilapidation has been reported on under
the above Act, and a closing order obtained-
The writer regrets that there does not appear any
present likelihood of the whole Court being opened up as a
street improvement. There can be little doubt that if the
entrance at either end were widened, the Common Lodging
Houses and tenement dwellings the Court contains
would be replaced by first-class business premises of high
rateable value, the increased assessment of which would go
far to pay the cost of such improvement.
Appeal to the London County Council as to the
interpretation of a Bye-law.
Under Section 39 (1) of the Public Health (London)
Act, a bye-law of the London County Council enacts, inter
alia, that " Every person who shall hereafter construct a
watercloset in connection with a building shall construct
such watercloset in such a position that, in the
case of a watercloset, one of its sides at the least shall be
an external wall, which external wall shall abut immediately
upon the street or upon a yard or garden or open
space of not less than one hundred square feet of superficial
area measured horizontally at a point below the level of the
floor of such closet."
Some new mansions in Glentworth Street have been
built with closets having external walls, which external
walls abut upon spaces of about 60 square feet, if the word