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In 1861, the number of inhabited houses was 8644, and the population
78,970 Since that period a great many houses have been taken down for
improvements; and, as there is scarcely any vacant ground in the district,
very few new houses can be erected, but as several of the large houses
have been vacated by the single families which formerly occupied them,
are now let out in tenements, the population has not decreased in proportion
to the number of houses taken down
In the next census, it would be desirable to enumerate the number of
inhabited rooms, as well as the number of inhabited houses in the district
Sanitary Work Performed during the Year 1867
The following return shows the amount of work done by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the year 1867:—
Number of houses visited, as shown in the official returns 32021
Houses systematically visited and rooms measured to ascertain
their cubic capacity 3556
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 121
Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 150
Preliminary Notices served 2773
Compulsory Orders issued for 536 premises 193
Summonses heard at Police Courts 27
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whtiewashed 1143
Dust-bins provided 238
Privies cleansed or repaired 881
Water-butts or cisterns provided 343
Drains in houses improved 540
Cesspools abolished 44
Accumulations of dung and other offensive matter removed 449
Area gratings, cellar daps, &c , repaired 107
Cases of the prolonged retention of the dead visited 5
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 13
Houses closed, the same being unfit for human habitation 65
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance, removed 14
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 732
Number of Special Notices served for registration of houses 103
Trades' Nuisances
The following trades' nuisances have come under the notice of the Board
during the year, and the greater part of them have been either entirely removed
or greatly abated The Animal Charcoal Works in Back Church
Lane, the Malleable Iron Works in Back Church Lane, the Oil Refinery
Works in Mile End New Town, the Bone Boilers in Buck's Row, the Fellmongers
in Buxton Street, the Malt Roasting in Booth Street, the Malt
Roasting in Bell Lane, the Animal Charcoal Refinery in Rupert Street
As regards the nuisance arising from the Refinery Premises of Sir
Anthony Rothschild, I regret to be obliged to report that very little has been
done to abate it At times this nuisance is as bad as it was many years ago