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From the above statement, it appears that 340 houses have been
either partially or completely white-washed during the Quarter. This
is but a small proportion of those houses which ought to have been
limewashed, for, instead of 350, the number should have been about
5,000, or all the houses in the District which are let out in separate tenements.
The rules and regulations of the Board respecting houses let
as lodging-houses, only go to the effect that such premises are to be
lime-whited "as often as occasion shall requirebut the rule ought to
have been so framed that all such houses should be lime-whited regularly
twice at least in every year, regardless of the appearance of the walls
and ceilings, and of the opinion of the Inspectors or of the Medical Officer
of Health. As the police regulations concerning registered lodginghouses,
in which persons only pass the night, and in which no case of
sickness is allowed to remain, require that all the rooms shall be timewashed
twice at least in every year, it is the more necessary to enforce a
similar provision for those tenements in which persons live, sleep, wash,
cook, and die, and in which the corpse is sometimes retained for ten,
twelve, or more days.
WATER SUPPLY.
Since my last Quarterly Report three additional water-waste preventers
have been erected in this District, viz.: one in Hanover Court,
one in Shorter's Rents, and one in Vincent's Place. There are now 70
of those machines in operation in this District, and I hope that the
number will soon be greatly increased; for it is most desirable that the
abominably filthy butts, now so general among poor, should be removed,
and that in lieu thereof, the poor should have water direct from the
main. As there are still remaining upwards of 4,000 unfit water
receptaclcs, it is manifest that much more attention must be given to
this matter before the water supply is satisfactory, yet I have reason to
believe that, from the recent proceedings of the two water companies,
which supply this District, they are both willing and anxious to furnish
the poor localities with water by means of water-waste preventers; and,
further, from a communication I have received from Mr. Edinger, the
Superintendent of the East London Company, I infer that it will not be
very long before a great improvement will be effected in the mode of
supply in the District, which is under his superintendence.
TRADES' NUISANCES.
The complaints of the nuisance from Sir Anthony Rothschild's premises
are as numerous as ever. From my personal knowledge, I can