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Act only, had from Christmas onwards to perform, in
addition, the more pressing sanitary duties of the
section of the parish to which Wood had been
attached.
There are only two items of the sanitary work of
the year which call for special remark; these are the
demolition, by order of the Vestry, under "The
Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act," of the
houses in Bexley Court; and the completion of works
ordered by the Magistrate for the purpose of
remedying the nuisance arising from the Fish Manure
Works in the Rotherhithe New Road.
Dr. Alchin's houses in Bexley Court, sixteen in
number, had long been a serious difficulty to the
Sewers and Sanitary Committee. Orders had been
served from time to time, for many years past, to
whitewash and cleanse, to repair, and to perform other
structural works; and these had been, to a certain
extent, complied with. Latterly, however, the houses
had been allowed to fall into a lamentable state of
ill-repair; and consequently, on the 24th October,
1872, I reported to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee
that the houses, Nos. 1 to 10, Bexley Court,
and 18 and 19, Alpha Street, Park Road, were, in