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THE ST. MARYLEBONE SHELTER.
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and fines inflicted for the breaches. An important
prosecution was undertaken by the Vestry against the
Metropolitan Electric Supply Co. for not consuming the
smoke from their premises. The case was proved, and
the defence that the Company were unable to get smokeless
coal owing to the South Wales strike was not
accepted by the magistrate, who inflicted the full penalty
of £10, with costs. In December a summons against
the owner of a house in Cochrane Street was heard for
not carrying out a drainage order, and a magistrate's
order obtained.
THE ST. MARYLEBONE SHELTER.
The St. Marylebone Shelter was fitted up in 1896,
and first occupied as a shelter in February of that year.
In 1896, a year in which there was a considerable amount
of infectious disease, the shelter was used 27 times.
In 1897, a non-epidemic year, it was only used 9 times.
In 1898, also a year remarkable for the relatively speaking
small amount of notifiable disease, the shelter was
used 10 times. Fourteen males and nineteen females
were sheltered while their rooms were disinfected. Most
of the cases were relating to scarlet fever and diphtheria.