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I have made inspection of houses in Barnes Street, Victoria Street,
Cock and Castle Lane; Camomile terrace; Chatham Place; Church
Street, Hackney; Park Road; Falcon Alley; Church Street; Stoke Newington;
Clarence Villas, Mortimer Road; Wilshire place, Kingsland
road; Park Street; Oriel Road; Meadow Street; Mortimer Place;
Nursery Place; Chapel Road; Margaret Street; Harriet Cottages;
Gresham Terrace; Ebenezer Place; Oak Place; Greenwood Row,
John Street, Hackney; and High Hill Ferry; also of dust yards; laystalls,
and cow-houses and premises, on which trades evolving unpleasant
smells are carried on. The reports on these localities having been laid
before the Board in my weekly minutes, need not be recapitulated. In
consequence of these visitations, 31 owaers of property, who had neglected
to comply with the notices requesting them to abate the
nuisances, were required to attend before the Board.
The nuisances abated by Mr. Valentine during the past quarter are as
follows
Cesspools emptied filled up and drained into the sewer 139
Cesspools emptied 28
Horse, cow, pig, and vegetable refuse removed 60
Houses limewashed purified and repaired 28
Pigsties repaired or removed 13
Foul and offensive drains cleansed and reconstructed 44
Other nuisances 11
323
The number of persons required to attend before the Board was far
larger than usual, and the difficulty in obtaining the removal of the
nuisances consequently unusually great, for this step is not taken
until other means have failed.
I cannot conclude this summary of the nuisances removed, without
again pointing out the diminution in the deaths from fever, 9 only having
been registered during this quarter. There is no doubt that privations of
all kinds; bad ventilation, and mental drepression conduce to attacks of
typhus and other fevers, but it is equally certain that imperfect sewerage
and overcrowding exercise the most prejudicial influence of all.
The weather during the quarter has been most singular, having been
characterised by a low barometrical pressure, low temperature and a