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front court, common to all the houses, has been paved with asphalte ; a new
dust-bin has been provided, and three water-waste-preventers have been
erected.
Court Yards held in common by several Owners, Improved.
There is frequently great difficulty in removing a nuisance arising from
defective drainage and paving of those courts which are used in common by
several persons; nevertheless the Inspectors have succeeded in removing a
nuisance, caused by the defective state of the paving of a yard known as
No. 15, Osborn Street, by inducing the owners, at their joint expense, to
properly pave and drain the same. The same remarks apply to a yard in
Church Lane, which is similarly occupied. Both these improvements were
effected without taking out summonses. Complaints having been made of
the unhealthy condition of Barber's Yard, Spitalfields, in consequence of the
same being badly paved and drained, notices were served upon the three
owners to carry out the necessary work; but as the several owners were
unable to agree upon the terms for carrying out the work, a summons was
served upon one of them, under the 34th section of the Niysances Removal
Act. The case was heard at the "Worship Street Police Court on the 4th of
July last, when the Magistrate made an order upon the person summoned to
pave the place in question. The work has been satisfactorily carried out.
Furnished Rooms.
The condition of the furniture in some of these rooms has been mentioned
in my reports for the last two quarters. Notices have been served on several
owners of these so-called furnished rooms, to remove such beds and bedding
as were found to be in such a filthy state as to be a nuisance, and injurious
to health. All the notices so served have been complied with.
Bacon unfit for Food.
Information having been given to the Officers of this Board that a large
quantity of bacon, unfit for human food, was on the premises of a Provision
Merchant, I visited the premises with one of the Inspectors, and found
there about twenty-three hundred weight of bacon, in a decomposed state.
The whole of this meat was taken away and conveyed to a fat-melter's
premises, and there destroyed under the inspection of Mr. "Wrack.
Underground Rooms illegally Occupied.
An inquest was recently held on the body of a woman who was found
dead in an underground room, at No. 5, Chicksand Street, when the
medical practitioner who was called in to give evidence, stated that the
room was unfit for habitation. In this opinion I fully concur; and I
may add, that the room was occupied in contravention of the Statute.
The attention of the Sanitary Officers has, during the last fourteen