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Underground Dwellings.
Twelve underground rooms reported to be illegally
occupied as sleeping places were order to be closed.
Underground kitchen cellars flourished at the time of
Charles the First, and numbers of such dwellings are
recorded to have existed in Dudley Street and other parts
of the district, until the passing of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, 1855, when stringent measures were
taken to prevent their occupation.
Animals Improperly Kept.
A number of pigeons, fowls and dogs were ordered to
be removed from rooms and premises as they were found to
be a nuisance, injurious or dangerous to health.
Unsound Food.
Parcels of fish and baskets of vegetables found to be unsound
and unfit for food of man were from time to time
brought to Stone Yard and destroyed.
The Market and other streets where food is sold are
regularly kept under observation, and are visited by the
Inspectors every Saturday evening.
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
118 Factories. Workshops, &c., were periodically visited
by your Officers, and in all cases where it seemed to be
necessary, measures were taken to diminish the number of
persons in workshops so as to prevent overcrowding and
to enforce the provisions as to cleanliness, ventilation,
drainage &c.
In several instances where workpeople of both sexes