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HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The following houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one
family were registered under the Vestry's bye-laws:—
Nos. 8, 9, and 10, Alfred Place;
Nos. 4 and 20, Branch Place ;
Nos. 102, 104, 106, 108, and 110, Wilmer Gardens ;
No. 30, Bristow Street.
The number of houses registered is 125.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS.
Under the above Acts, application for certificates for the purpose of obtaining
exemption from inhabited house duty, was received, respecting 24 dwellings. The
dwellings were inspected, and the necessary certificates were granted.
MANURE NUISANCES IN CONNECTION WITH STABLES.
Several complaints were received during the summer months with reference to
smells arising from accumulations of horse-dung manure. Most offensive putrefactive
odours are liable to be evolved whenever accumulations of manure—especially in cases
where peat litter is used—are disturbed. The most effectual way to prevent this
nuisance appears to be to load the vehicles by which the manure is to be removed
direct from the stables, and, when full, to remove them without their contents being
disturbed. This method of removal has proved satisfactory in preventing nuisance in
certain cases in Shoreditch in which it has been adopted.
STREET MARKETS AND POOD SUPPLY.
The usual supervision was exercised by the Vestry's sanitary inspectors over the
street markets and the various articles of diet exposed for sale. Steps were taken as
far as practicable to prevent animal and vegetable refuse being deposited in the
roadways and on the footpaths. Generally it may be stated that the food stuffs
exposed for sale were of most excellent quality. Frequent inspections were made
with a view to the prevention of unsoun.l articles of food being sold. The following
coming under the observation of the Vestry s officers were destroyed as unfit for human
consumption :—6 cat fish, 3| barrels of skate, 1 trunk of haddocks, 100 stone and 4
boxes of plaice, 1 trunk of soles, 141bs. of beef, 93 pieces of beef and mutton, 1 carcase
of mutton, 25 stone of ox kidneys, 12 portions of pig, 4 cwt. of ham 3 pieces of liver,
11 cwt. 3J qrs. of rabbits, 4 boxes of oranges, 4 crates of tomatoes, and about 2 cwt. of
brazil nuts.