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machinery of which is very simple, and the cost of the apparatus, (which is
known as Lambert's Patent Water-waste-preventer Bib Tap) is comparatively
small, about 7s. 6d. each. Mr. Samuel Blow, of Swan Street, Minories,
Plumber, has erected four of these Bib Taps in this District.
Pigs kept contrary to the Statute.
It will also be seen from the above Table that 14 pigs have been removed
from this District. Pigs have recently been found on three premises in Hunt
Street. The several parties have had notice to remove them. The keeping
of pigs within 40 yards of any public street is illegal.
Sanitary Improvements effected in the South Side of the District,
which is under the inspection of Mr. battram.
Garden Court.
The public privies in Garden Court, which were used in common by the
inhabitants of some of the houses in Crown Court, had been frequently complained
of as a nuisance. These privies, which were built of wood, had
become dilapidated and saturated with filth, have been pulled down, and new
slate ones erected on their site.
These new privies are constructed upon the trough principle, similar to
those in use in the large School for Jewish Children in Bell Lane, Spitalfields,
which are used daily, without occasioning a nuisance, by upwards of
a thousand boys. The trough, which is constantly kept filled with water,
except during the periods of flushing, is placed on an incline, so that by
pulling out the plug at the lower end of the trough, all the filth is rapidly
carried away into the drain. This operation can be performed several times
a day, if needed.
Privies so constructed, if properly attended to, are, in my opinion, the
best adapted for courts, where, owing to the want of back yards to the
houses, public privies are necessarily required.
Slater's Court.
In this court there Avere four public privies, which were situated within
a few feet of the fronts of two or three of the houses in the occupation of
several very poor families; which privies at times were so offensive as to
render these houses unfit for habitation. It was therefore necessary either
that these houses should be closed, or the privies abolished, and new ones
erected in another situation. In a corner of this court, the whole of which
belongs to the same landlord, there was situated a house which, from the
want of proper ventilation, was in my opinion unfit for habitation. I suggested
to the owner that he should pull down this house and erect new
privies on its site, for the use of the inhabitants of the three houses abovementioned.
The landlord adopted my suggestion. The result has been
satisfactory.
Hairbrain Court.
The public privies in Hairbrain Court were built of wood, and were
almost always in an offensive condition. It was recommended that these
privies should betaken down, and others built of some impermeable substance.
This improvement has been carried out with good effect.