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the Eastern District Ambulance Station to remove to hospital
the infectious cases arising in the parishes of St. Giles
in the Fields, and St. George, Bloomsbury.
Sanitary Work.
The summary of the sanitary work for the past year will
be found in Table No. VI., Appendix. It is there shown
that the sanitary inspectors made 11,776 visits and inspections,
and served 1,318 orders on owners of properties for
the abatement of nuisances and the sanitary improvement
of houses and premises.
Legal Proceedings had only to be taken against the
owners of 45 houses for not carrying out the necessary
sanitary works ordered by your Board. Convictions, with
costs, were obtained in every case. In 23 cases in the
Little Coram Street area the houses were so dilapidated
and insanitary, that a magistrate's order was obtained for
closing them until the owners had rendered them fit for
human habitation. Most of these houses have since been
demolished.
Animals so kept as to be a Nuisance.—Complaint
was made that a nuisance was caused by the keeping of a
number of rabbits in a back room in a house in Great St.
Andrew's Street. The usual notice was served on the
owner, and the nuisance was speedily abated.
Overcrowding.—38 notices were served on owners to
reduce overcrowding on their premises. Your officers experience
great difficulty in detecting overcrowding, in consequence
of the legal hours for the inspection of houses
being fixed between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. The real overcrowding
in the tenement dwellings takes place at nighttime,
after the closing of the public-houses.