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Preliminary Notices served 1178
Compulsory Orders issued 144
Summonses heard at the Police Courts 27
Houses in which the Rooms and Passages have
been whitewashed 566
Yards of Houses Paved, or the Pavement repaired. 248
Dust-bins provided 150
Privies cleansed or repaired 202
Water-butts or Cisterns supplied or repaired 286
Drains in Houses improved 178
Cesspools abolished 8
Accumulation of Dung and other offensive matter
removed 136
Area Gratings, Cellar Flaps, &c., repaired 32
Ventilation of Houses improved 29
Houses closed, being unfit for human habitation 2
Rooms overcrowded abated 10
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance 11
Notices given to Police of Rooms sub-let 5
The 144 compulsory orders mentioned contained the particulars of the
sanitary improvements required in 353 houses, and the 27 summonses those
that were required in several houses. One summons was taken out at the
Worship Street Police Court, under the Public Health Act, 1866.
During the quarter, it has been necessary to take legal proceedings
against several manufacturers for not conducting their businesses in such a
manner as to prevent the escape of noxious effluvia. In the two cases of
bone boiling and the storing of bones heard at Worship Street Police Court,
the Magistrate ordered the bones to be removed daily ; and he ordered that
the business should be suspended during the prevalence of the Cholera,, or
at all events during the next two months. This order has been attended
to, and the neighbourhood has been entirely freed from the nuisance arising
from these noxious businesses ; but I am afraid that as the two months
have now expired, the nuisance will be again repeated; but if so, the most
stringent measures must be put in force to abate it. A nuisance of another
kind, but equally as injurious to health by its tendency to produce disease
of the respiratory organs, has repeatedly been brought to the notice of your
Board. I allude to the refinery premises of Sir Anthony Rothschild, in
Royal Mint Street. It appears that, in consequence of numerous complaints
made to your Board during the last eight or nine years, Sir Anthony has
incurred considerable expense in endeavouring to condense the sulphuric
acid vapour which escapes from the process adopted in refining the precious