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Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed.. 199
Dust-bins provided 34
Privies limewhited, cleansed and repaired 86
Water-butts or cisterns provided or repaired 59
Drains in houses improved, &c 84
Cesspools abolished 7
Houses systematically re-visited 41
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 7
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 80
Number of special notices served for registration of 30 houses 30
Slaughter-houses specially visited 38
Cow-houses ditto 24
Copies of Workshop Regulation Act distributed 70
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance, removed 8
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 10
Cases of the prolonged retention of the dead 1
Nuisances caused by the accumulations of dang and other offensive matter,
and from stopped privies, are very numerous. These are not recorded in the
books of the Inspectors, unless official notices are served.
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the police authorities several notices of dangerous structures, and have also
given intimation to them of all the rooms which they have found, on a houseto-house
visitation, or on private information, to be occupied by more than
one family. The Act requires that all rooms so let, must bo registered under
the Common Lodging House Act.
The body of a man who died in the London Hospital, was brought to No.
5, Half Moon Passage, and kept in the attic room for 10 days, where the
wife and four children lived and slept.
On the 24th December a parcel of geese was seized from a shop in the
Whitechapel Road and taken to Worship Street Police Court, and was condemned
by the Magistrate, as being unfit for human food. It was taken to
the knacker's yard where it was destroyed.
ARTIZANS' AND LABOURERS' DWELLINGS ACT.
31 & 32 Vict., c. 130.
On the 5th November last, I addressed a letter, in compliance with the
provisions of the above named Act, to the Clerk of the Board of Works,
bringing under his notice that certain premises, viz., five houses in Jacob's
Court, Castle Alloy, were unfit for human habitation by reason of the
defective state of the surface drainage, the insufficient ventilation, and absence
of light in the staircases, close and offensive smell in the houses, their
dilapidated condition, and from the frequent occurrence of fever in them.
This letter, containing a report of the unhealthy condition of these houses,
was laid before the Board, and was referred by them to the Surveyor for
him to report his opinion to the Board on the subject of my report. On the
19th November, the Surveyor reported to the following effect: that the
houses were dilapidated; that the most economical mode of proceeding would
be to pull them down and rebuild them; and he recommended that course be