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walk; Exmouth-place; Goring-street (41 houses); Robin-hood-hill;
Lawrence-buildings, Sanford-lane; Queen's-court, Well-street; Homertonrow;
College-street, Homerton; Palatine-houses, Stoke Newington-road;
Albert-street(10houses); Brunswick-street; Robinson's-row, Kingsland;
Pleasant-place; Clarke's-buildings, Stoke Newington; Holly-street-south;
Lordship-road; Elizabeth-terrace, Stamford-hill; Matthias-street, Kingsland
(26 houses). Also many piggeries and cow-houses, and the sixty-one
slaughter houses scattered about the District.
The number of nuisances abated during the Quarter by Mr Valentine,
partly in consequence of my inspections, were unusually large, viz., 393.
These may be classified as follows:
Cesspools emptied, filled up, and drained into the sewer
72
C esspools emptied
8
Horse, cow, pig, and vegetable refuse removed
59
House and other premises, limewashed, purified, and repaired
150
Pigsties repaired or removed
32
Foul and offensive drains cleansed and reconstructed
62
Other nuisances
10
393
To obtain the removal of so many nuisances, it was necessary to require
24 persons to attend before the Board, to shew cause why they should not
be summonsed before the Police Magistrates ; but of these 4 only were
summonsed, as the other 20 removed the nuisances without legal proceedings.
Having already referred to the temperature during this Quarter, I need
only state that although the temperature on certain days was unusually
high, yet the difference from the average of the last 90 years was but
small, viz., not quite 1 degree in excess. The mean pressure of the
barometer was less than usual, and the rain-fall not quite one-half of the
average quantity.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
November, 1861. JOHN W. TRIPE.
Received, and ordered to be printed and circulated,
J. J. TANNER,
Chairman.
21st November, 1861.