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the 755 cases of miscellaneous nuisances comprise nearly all
those, in which the complaints have been initiated by the parties
affected by them.
In respect of several of the above classes of improvements
which have been carried out, I should wish to make a few
observations. The laying on to houses of water for drinking
purposes has been accomplished in some cases, in which either
no kind of supply had previously existed, or in which the pump
water already in use, was found from its bad quality, to be unwholesome
and unfit for drink. I may remind you, that for
some months past, I have been in the habit of laying before you
analysis of the waters supplied by the Kent, the Lambeth, and
the Southwark companies, showing that, though the Kent
company's water is scarcely so pure as that furnished by the
other companies, they are all fair specimens of drinking water,
and far superior to that generally furnished by shallow wells.
Consequently, I believe it will be to the benefit of health, when
the use of the companies' water has replaced that of the water
derived from wells throughout the whole of the parish.
The erection of dust-bins has been enforced in certain cases ;
as for example in connection with houses of a superior class ;
or where it was found possible to provide one for the use of
several poorer dwellings. I must confess, however, that I should
be glad to see dust-bins more generally erected than they are,
for I am quite sure they would conduce to health, by preventing
vegetable refuse, and other offensive matters, from lying about
and rotting in the back-yards; and from being thrown out into
the streets, as is often the case in the lower portions of the
parish.