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of filth were removed from the most objectionable underground
reservoir in Union-square, Chapel-street.
Nuisances Removed, &c.—Although many nuisances and
sanitary evils still remain, and, as I have shown, some are increasing,
numerous others have been removed, and important improvements
effected.
Thus: 125 houses have been drained; 101 new drains laid;
90 cesspools have been destroyed; 33 sewers have been cleansed and
repaired: 341 gullies cleansed, repaired, and trapped: two new airshafts
built: 17 new gullies aonstructed, and 1915 feet of new
sewers have been made in Little Sutton-street, Berry-street, Allenstreet,
Clark-street, Hooper-street, and Chapel-row; besides the
removal of pigs, collections of refuse, cleansing of cow-yards, &c.
It is evident then on the whole, that the sanitary state of the district
has been improved, and that the foundation of still further progress
has been laid.
At the same time, while we are preventing nuisances from
entering the dwellings from without, these have been generated within
them; and unless some measures be taken to keep this source
of danger in check, should any epidemic condition appear, we shall
have to give an account of some extreme mortality, which might
have been prevented, or which previous efforts might have rendered
less severe.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
J. W. GRIFFITH, M.D. F.I.S.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
October, 1860.
Brickhill and Greenwood, Printers, Newington Butts,