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to be a yard for the use of the inhabitants, as they dried their
clothes by suspending them on lines stretched across the street.
There were also some summonses for overcrowding, one indecent,
where father, mother and six children, two nearly grown up,
occupied one room. We have had, I am glad to say, very few of
these cases for several years past.
I have attended 32 Ordinary Meetings and 3 Special Meetings
of the Sanitary Committee, as well as 12 meetings of the View
Committee, for considering various matters connected with the
slaughter-houses and cow-sheds of the district, as well as for
viewing the premises whereon these businesses were conducted.
One view and two other meetings were held specially to consider the
propriety of closing all the wells on the premises occupied by
cowkeepers; when after submitting an analysis of the water
from 9 pumps, all of which were found to be contaminated, the
committee advised the applications for licenses to be opposed at
the Sessions. At the Sessions held at Edmonton the renewal of
two licenses were opposed for this cause, and one other for not
doing necessary work, and the applications were adjourned to enable
the applicants to remove the pumps and fill up the wells, which
were done. At the Prescott Street Sessions the same course was
decided upon as regards seven pumps, so that I am not aware of
any pumps now existing in this district on premises occupied by a
cow-keeper. The Committee also took into consideration the
propriety of fixing the number of cubic feet to be allowed for
each cow, but after several discussions have not decided what
report they should bring up to you on the subject.
I also attended several special sub-committees for making
inspections of several courts which were not properly paved and
drained; of deposits which had been made near the Grange Road,
Clapton, near the Rectory Road and other places; and an inspection
of the disinfecting chamber prior to certain alterations and
repairs which were required to be done. I also visited places
where houses were being built on refuse or on made ground, or with