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By section 48, sub-section 2 of the Public Health (London)
Act it is enacted that all new buildings, and buildings taken
down to or below the ground floor and rebuilt, shall not be
inhabited unless they possess a water supply satisfactory to the
Sanitary Authorities, and certified by the same. Several such
buildings came under my observation during the year, and on
my Report your Board granted your certificate to the same. It
was decided to distribute notices calling attention to this section
of the Act.
Several cases of Diphtheria having occurred in the northern
portion of the district, a letter was addressed to the London
County Council asking that steps might be taken for the more
efficient ventilation of the sewers in that locality. To this the
Council replied that, with a view to increasing the current of air,
the ventilating furnace in Rhodeswell Road had been put to
work. A special inspection of houses in Carr Street, Maroon
Street, Repton Street, and the whole of the east and north of
Limehouse Fields was at the same time directed and carried out.
The blocks of buildings in Dellow Street, Shadwell, erected
by the London County Council on ground cleared some years
ago under the Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings Acts, were
opened last March, and were immediately tenanted. The rooms
are a fair size, the sanitary arrangements quite abreast of the
times, and the buildings substantially constructed.
A letter was received from the London County Council,
with copies of Report on Hertford Sewage and the state of the
Manifold Ditch which enters the River Lee above the intake
of the East London Water Works Company. These reports
revealed a most unsatisfactory state of things, and the Board
ordered copies to be sent to the Local Government Board.
In consequence of a communication from the Islington
Vestry, the subject of the sale of ice creams came before the
Board, and I was desired to procure samples of the same for
analysis. This was done, and analysis did not reveal, so far as
ingredients went, anything of a deleterious nature. Evidence of
the unsatisfactory surroundings under which these delicacies
were prepared was, however, abundantly present, and led to an
inspection of the ice cream shops in the district. A regular
inspection of these premises will now be made.