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General Health of the District.
The general health of the district, mainly owing to the
bright mild weather of April, continues excellent. So far
the few cases of smallpox have been confined to the
Workhouse, to the class which recent events have shown
is a potent factor in all epidemics in disseminating the
malady.
The risk of spreading is however much minimised when
the patients are attacked in an institution like the Workhouse,
under strict observation and discipline; it is gratifying
to note that as yet not a single case has been notified from
the Salvation Army Shelter or from the numerous Common
Lodging Houses in the district.
Report under the Housing of the Working Classes
Act.
No. 9, Gee's Court has been reported as unfit for
habitation, and a summons taken out for the purpose of
closing the premises.
The back and front walls are in a bad state, woodwork
throughout old and decayed, windows broken, drains
defective and the whole place in a state of utter neglect.
Probably nothing short of re-building will put the
premises in a proper and fit state for habitation.
Legal Proceedings under the Public Health (London)
Act.
It is seldom that a Magistrate's Order has to be
obtained to enter premises. A complaint was laid that the
occupier of a certain room in Capland Street kept her room
in a filthy, even disgusting, condition. She refused to allow
the Inspector to view the same, and recourse had to be
made to a magistrate. An order was granted, but in the
meantime the lady had done a considerable amount of
spring cleaning, and by the time the Inspector gained