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I have on several occasions found it desirable to
certify to the Vestry that particular houses were injurious
to health from defect of means of aeration, with
a view to receiving their authority for instituting proceedings
under the Nuisances Removal Act, to compel
the owners to carry out the orders made on my recommendation.
In no instance however has it as yet been
found necessary to procure the interposition of the
magistrate. Out of 56 orders for new windows issued
46 have been complied with, and the rest are reported
as in progress of execution. I wish to state here, that
there is no description of Sanitary works, excepting
perhaps drainage, which has been attended with such
marked improvement in salubrity, and which has given
me so much satisfaction.
I feel confident that the owners themselves will be
amply repaid for the trifling cost of this most essential
improvement of their property,
Before concluding this Report, I feel it desirable to
refer to a subject which has lately been brought under
public attention, namely, the threatened return of
Cholera. The indications of another invasion are at
least ominous. The disease prevails in a severe
form in several ports with which we keep up an
active commercial intercourse. Several cases have
been actually imported into the Thames. Should the
disease at any time meet here with all those peculiar
conditions which are favorable to its spread, it will