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Kensington 21.5 per 1000.
St. George's, Hanover Square 22 „
Marylebone 23 „
Mile End Old Town 21
Metropolis 22.7 „
The shocking over-crowding in West End houses
during the season, greatly exceeds anything of the kind
in the East End, and would be quite as probable a cause
of fever as infected milk from the country; the train of
other evils resulting from such a state is proverbial.
The inhabitants of East London themselves seem to
be becoming infected with, and to foster this depreciatory
feeling, and as a conseqence lose respect for the locality
and for themselves, and are coming to think that any
discomforts or annoyances, any offensive innovations or
dangerous nuisances, whether injurious to health or
prejudicial to the value of property, or disagreeable to
neighbours, must be resignedly tolerated because it is
East London; and the projectors of such offences
consider themselves absolved from penalty or censure
because it is only the East End ; all such circumstances,
however dissociated they may appear to the uninitiated,
in regard to the publie health and well-being, have a
considerable aggregate effect upon both. It will be
well if both Sanitary Authorities and the Police do not
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become infected with this "laches".
Sanitary Inspector's Report of Works executed
during the year 1873—4.
Houses and premises connected with
new sewers
132
Old drains abolished
120
Houses cleansed and purified
127
Houses disinfected
65