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may with impunity be set up The Metropolitan Board of Works has now
the power of doing a vast amount of good, towards improving the health of
people, and the public will certainly expect them to perform it
I have on a former occasion drawn your attention to the unhealthy condition
of underground bakehouses, owing to the impossibility of providing for
their proper ventilation Many of the bakehouses in this district are situated
under the footways of the pulbic streets, so that if at any time it should
be deemed advisable to form sub-ways, for gas and water pipes, telegraph
wires, &c , the owners of such bakehouses must be compensated In a new
Building Act, it ought surely to be deemed expedient to insert a clause prohibiting
the formation of a bakehouse under the public way In no instance
should the public way be sacrificed for the benefit of any individual
Sanitary Work Performed during the Quarter
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the quarter
Number of houses visited, as shown in the official returns 8532
Houses systematically visited and rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 605
Number of rooms found to be over-crowded, the space being
less than 300 cubic feet for each person, reckoning two
children for one adult 7
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 37
Preliminary Notices served 668
Compulsory Orders issued for 149 premises 60
Summonses heard at Police Courts 8
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been white-washed 225
Dust-bins provided 46
Privies cleansed or repaired 221
Water-butts or cisterns provided or repaired 77
Drains in houses improved, &c 122
Cesspools abolished 6
Accumulations of dung and other offensive matter removed 112
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c , repaired 33
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 8
Houses closed, the same being unfit for human habitation 13
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 3