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New Public Sewers have been constructed in the course of 1862, in
Nottingham Court, in Ashlins Place and in Whetstone Park; in each instance
houses on the line of the new sewer have been connected therewith with very
great advantage to their wholesomeness. An important new sewer has also
been lately constructed to Keppel Mews South.
Among places whose sewerage requires early consideration may be mentioned
Dudley Street, New Compton Street, and Lincoln Court. In none of
these streets can the houses now be drained with complete efficiency, owing to
the defects of the central sewer. In Dudley Street, the sewer has been
partially repaired, but it is understood still to be very inadequate to the requirements
of the street.
As far as practicable, the occupation has been prevented of those underground
dwellings of the district that are not in conformity with the provisions
of the Metropolis Local Management Act. A little more obedience has been
shewn to the law by the parties interested since the enforcement of a penalty
against the owners of certain cellars in Dudley Street.
An inspection of the School Children of St. Giles's and Bloomsbury with
reference to their Vaccination has been made, but a statement of the results
will come with more interest into the next report, when the epidemic of Small
Pox in 1863 will have to be noticed. Here it may be said, however, that the
proportion of un-vaccinated children detected was much less than on the
occasion of the former inspection in 1859.
In the year 1862, an amendment of the law, (25 & 26 Vict., cap. cii. s. 93)
gave to Justices of the Peace the power of licensing places to be used as Cowhouses
in London, and provided that the District Board might shew cause against
the granting of such license. The Board of Works of St. Giles's determined to
oppose the granting of any license to Cow-houses within their district, on the
f round that their establishments could not be conducted in crowded neighbourhoods
without injury to the health of human residents.
Other arguments might easily be adduced against London Cow-houses,
viz, that the milk of the animals in London sheds was not as wholesome as that
of cows in country pastures; and further, that Central London could easily be
supplied with milk from the country; but the main point that appeared needful