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Number of cases of indecent occupation discovered 15
Houses specially visited 347
Ditto specially re-visited 1041
Ditto registered by order of the Board 3
Certificates and copies of same prepared for the registration of the 6
above houses
Number of special notices served for the registration of houses 12
Preliminary notices served, many of such notices embracing several houses 209
Compulsory orders issued, embracing 157 premises 52
Summonses heard at police courts 1
Houses in which the rooms or passages have been whitewashed 283
Ventilation of houses improved 6
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous acid gas after the occurrence of )
small-pox therein)
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 47
Drains in houses improved 56
Dust bins provided 4
Privies limewashed, cleansed, and repaired 92
Water-butts and cisterns provided or repaired 06
Water-waste preventers erected 0
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 6
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 20
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 4
The cow-houses in the District, 24, the slaughter-houses, 39, and the
Bake-houses, 83 in number, have been visited during the Quarter.
In addition to this return, the Inspectors report that they have forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works several notices of dangerous structures,
which notices the Metropolitan Board have promptly attended to.
The Inspectors further report that on visiting the houses Nos. 3 & 4,
Sugar Loaf Court, Spitalfields, and Nos. 5, 6, 7, & 8, Goulston Court, Whitechapel,
all of which are let out in separate furnished apartments, the beds
and mattresses, 15 in number, were found to be in such a filthy condition as
to be a nuisance and injurious to health. Notices were served upon the
landlords of these houses to destroy the filthy beds and mattresses therein, and
provide new ones. The requirements in the notices were complied with.
Report or the Medicai Oeeicer oe Health on the new Houses in
course of Erection in Nelson Court.
At a Meeting of the Committee of Works, held on Thursday, September
fth, I drew attention to the fact that seven new houses were in course of
erection in Nelson Court, Whitechapel Road, when I was requested to make
an inspection of the locality and report to the Board thereon.
The following is a copy of such report:
" To the Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
Gentlemen, 1 ith September, 1871.
On Saturday last, in company with your Surveyor, I inspected
the seven houses now in course of erection in Little North Street and Nelson
Court. Nelson Court is entered from the Whitechapel Road by a narrow
entrance of less than two feet in width, and the width of the Court opposite
to the houses in the course of erection is only 6 feet 9 inches.