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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Whenever possible, we refrain from taking cases to Worship street.
Our powers of persuasion are, however, at times not sufficient, and
have to be supplemented by the order of the Magistrate. In Hamilton
road a number of houses were found to have their closets situated in
the basements in such a position as to render it impossible to ventilate
them, except into the living rooms of the house itself. Our endeavours
to get them removed being unsuccessful, the owner was summoned to
Worship street, where the magistrate made an order for the closets to
be demolished. This order was eventually complied with, and the
closets were erected in the yards.
In one of the houses in the same road a number of dogs were found
in an upper room in a most disgusting condition. Legal proceedings
had to be taken before the owner would remove them and cleanse the
premises.
A sausage manufacturer, in Pott street, was found to have a W.C.
in his chopping-house ; as this communicated with and ventilated right
into the factory, and was moreover without any door, the owner may
have been said, without exaggeration, to have carried on his business
in a W.C. By the magistrate's order the closet was shut off by a brick
partition from the chopping-house, and a separate entrance constructed.
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TIN BURNING.
In consequence of a communication received from the Medical
Officer to the Local Government Board, all the places in the parish
where tin burning was carried on were inspected. The quantity now
burned is very much less than in past years; and upon enquiry of the
inhabitants in the neighbourhood, it was found that the nuisance was
materially abated.
DILAPIDATED AND DANGEROUS STRUCTURES.
Attention having been drawn to the condition of a block of houses
at the corner of Sclater Street and Brick Lane, they were carefully
inspected, and found to be in a most insanitary condition. As the
actual structure of the buildings was so much decayed as to render
them dangerous, the attention of the District Surveyor was called to their
condition. They were condemned and ordered to be at once pulled
down, and new buildings are now in course of erection on the site.