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Underground Rooms used as Dwellings.—The notices which
were served on owwers of houses for permitting their underground rooms
to be illegally occupied, were generally attended to, but in one instance,
where the order was disobeyed, the owner was summoned before Mr.
Knox, at Marlborough Street, and find 20s. and costs, or 14 days'
imprisonment.
Overcrowding.—In several cases of overcrowding which occurred
in the District during the year, the owners obeyed the orders made,
and promptly reduced the number of inmates.
It is right to notice that the health of London was remarkably good
during the year, and the health of our District was as good as the
rest of the Metropolis, for the death-rate of St. Giles was precisely the
same as that of all London, viz., 22.3 per thousand. This fact is most
satisfactory, and is strong evidence that a central district may be
made as healthy as an outlying one.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
S. K. LOVETT,
Medical Officer of Health.
lst May, 1877.