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short sighted policy, instead of filling up the cesspools, merely supplied the
privy with a trap and pan, thereby temporarily removing the nuisance and
so deceiving the Inspectors.
Sanitary Condition of Houses and Places improved.
The improvements effected under the provisions of the Sanitary Acts in
the condition of houses and places in this District have been duly recorded
in my Quarterly Reports. I may, however, here recapitulate a few of the
most important of these sanitary improvements, and the first that I shall
mention are the houses in Leman Row. These houses were, in consequence
of legal proceedings being taken against the owner, ordered by the Police
Magistrate to be closed, the same having been proved to his satisfaction as
being unfit for human habitation. This Court is entirely abolished and now
forms part of the premises of a sugar refinery.
2. The nine houses in Swan Court, Glasshouse Street, which were unfit
for habitation have been pulled down, the Court abolished, and a better class
of houses erected on the site, having a frontage to the street.
3. The four houses in Avenue Place, Spitalfields, which were ordered by
the Magistrate to be closed in consequence of their being unfit for habitation,
still remain unoccupied.
4. Four houses in Rose Court, Upper East Smithfield, have been shut
up for several years, the Landlord preferring to keep them empty rather than
comply with the orders of the Board to register them and put them in a state
fit for human habitation.
5. Miller's Court, Dorset Street, has been improved, in consequence of
legal proceedings having been taken against the owner. This Court was so
confined that it was considered to be unfit for habitation. The owner, in
order to give more space for ventilation, took down part of a house, and, on
the vacant space, erected the necessary domestic conveniences for the use of
the inhabitants.
G. The sanitary condition of Garden Place, Mile End New Town, has
been greatly improved by the landlord carrying out a similar arrangement.
7. The same may be said of Swan Court, Middlesex Street.
8. Six houses which formed Black Horse Court, Spitalfields, have been
demolished under the provisions of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act.
9. Two houses in Bridgman's Alley having been considered by tho
Medical Officer of Health to be unfit for habitation, legal proceedings were
adopted to obtain an order from the Magistrate to close them. The order
was obtained, and the houses were kept closed until the sanitary requirements
were satisfactorily carried out.
10. A room in No. 107, New-road, was ordered by the Magistrate to be
discontinued for use as a habitable room, the same being unfit for such purpose
in consequence of deficiency of light and ventilation.
11. Lastly, I may mention George Court, Mile End New Town, in which
there arc six houses of two rooms each, which I reported to the Board as