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disconnected, and flushing-tanks fitted to the water-closets. The work of
bringing the houses, generally, into line with modern sanitary requirements
will be continued to completion.
"The least satisfactory part of the district is Thresher's Cottages and Thresher's
Mews, with the owner of which your Committee are in communication with
reference to necessary structural amendments, or demolition, of certain
houses. Complaint had been made with respect to some of the houses that
they had no dust-bins. These houses, however, are provided with a common
dust-bin in Thresher's Mews, to which the ashes, temporarily stored in
small moveable receptacles, are conveyed from time to time. Another
complaint was that some of the closets of the smaller houses were without a
fixed water supply, being hand-flushed. The pans of these closets were found
uniformly clean, and they compared favourably with those flushed through
waste-preventing apparatus. Many of the yards, like those in the other
district, were littered with useless articles of no value, giving to them an
untidy appearance. The paving of some of them requires attention.
"It is almost needless, perhaps, to point out to your Vestry that such sanitary defects
as have been alluded to, are of constant recurrence in houses occupied
by the lowest classes, and are largely brought about by the dirty and careless
or mischievous habits of the people themselves. But they are of a remediable
character, and the remedy is invariably applied, with all possible
expedition, so soon as the evil is detected.
"What appears to be most needed in these districts is frequent house-to-house inspection;
and, with a view to secure this, your Committee recommend the
appointment of a temporary Sanitary Inspector, and that it be referred to
them to make the appointment."
Your Vestry adopted the Committee's Report, and
decided to appoint a temporary Sanitary Inspector for the
district for the period of one year..
COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
In connection with the subject dealt with in the preceding
section, I applied to the Commissioner of Police for the
Metropolis for information respecting the Common Lodging
Houses in this Parish, and was courteously supplied with the
subjoined list of these places, which are 43 in number, and
provide accommodation for 1,164 persons. Thirty-two of
them are in the North-West Sanitary District, which
includes tha so-called "Avernus " and the " Potteries."