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Prosecution under the Public Health Act.
A summons was taken out against the owner of Nos.
97 and 99, Princess Street, but the work having been completed
before the hearing the summons was withdrawn.
The owner of No. 9, Nightingale Street was summoned
for disobedience to a Vestry notice, requiring new drainage
and general repair of No. 9, Nightingale Street. The
Magistrate gave an order for the notice to be carried out
and the premises in the meantime to be closed.
Cleansing of Persons Act.
Owing to various circumstances, the Cornish boiler,
the new baths, and the auxiliary disinfecting apparatus,
have not yet been fixed up near the shelter.
During June 337 males availed themselves of the
purifying and disinfecting facilities at present existing.
The total number of bathers from March 2nd to the 30th of
June is 1,055.
Housing of the Working Classes Act.
The structures at the rear of Nos. 17 and 19, Rurne
Street, referred to in the Report for May, have been ordered
by the Stipendiary Magistrate to be closed.
It has been suggested that a scheme might be made
under Part II. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
to deal with some of the more insanitary parts of the Parish.
The Sanitary Committee agree with the writer that such
scheme may with advantage be for the present postponed,
for the simple reason that such successive clearances and
improvements have taken place in the Parish during the
past ten years, that it may be confidently hoped this improvement
year by year will continue, without putting into
force the large powers of confiscation the Local Authority
possess under the Act. It must be remembered that the
Act only recognises an interest of 21 years or above, hence
an owner possessing a term short of 21 years may be
entirely disregarded, this in many cases is so unjust, that a
scheme should not be lightly undertaken. Much good may
on the other hand be effected in detail by closing individual
houses as in the cases above enumerated.