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Rents, Drum Yard, and Cherubim Court. In some of these courts there is a
constant supply of water from the main, and in others tanks or cisterns are
provided. The water-butts, which are very generally used, are highly objectionable,
being for the most part old and unprovided with a proper
cover. I am in great hopes that before the issuing of my next report a great
improvement will be made in the water supply of the district; for, as the watercompanies
are not bound to supply water to any premises where the waste of
it exists or is likely to occur from the defective state of the apparatus provided
for its reception, I shall urge them to insist upon landlords complying
with the Act of Parliament, and providing proper cisterns, so that the inhabitants
in all the courts in the district shall have a constant supply of water.
All the stand-taps, therefore, which now exist in the district, will, I trust, be
speedily abolished, and proper cisterns erected in their stead. The Inspectors
have systematically visited and reported upon the sanitary condition of 17
courts during the last quarter, and on 82 during the currency of the whole
year.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Tour obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.