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5 AUGUST, 1891.
(g) The Cottage, Rectory Square; Nos. 2, Exmouth
Street; 467, Commercial Road; and 40 to 54,
Jamaica Street—
To provide water supplies to the closets thereat.
(h) Nos. 5, Rectory Square ; and 87, Greenfield Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(i) Nos. 40 to 54, Jamaica Street—
To repair the defective roofs and dilapidated plaster of
walls thereof.
(j) Nos. 85, 167, Turner's Road; 50, Rhodeswell Road;
78, Rutland Street; and 40 to 54, Jamaica Street—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(k) Nos. 11, Gateshead Place; and 2, Exmouth Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust or repair the dustbins
thereat.
(l) No. 2, John's Place—
To provide a dung-pit thereat.
(m) Nos. 85, Turner's Road; 1, John's Place; and 76,
Rutland Street—
To pave or repair the paving of the yards thereof.
(n) No. 78, Rutland Street—
To repair the closet thereat.
(5) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That
proceedings be taken against the owners of such of the
houses and premises who fail to carry out the orders of your
Board in respect of
(a) Cleansing drains within 48 hours ; and
(b) The other sanitary works within 28 days
from the service of the notices, and that the Chairman
sign the necessary orders in each particular case, empowering
the Inspector of Nuisances for the district in which
the premises are situate, to make complaints and take proceedings
on behalf of the Vestry.
(6) That your Committee have had under consideration the
subject of the sanitary condition of the area comprising a
small block of houses and buildings in Sidney Street, Lewin's
Buildings and Adelina Grove, and it appearing to your Committee
that the closeness, narrowness and bad arrangement of
such houses and buildings, and also the want of light, air, ventilation
and proper conveniences and other sanitary detects,
are dangerous or prejudicial to the health of he inhabitants
of the said buildings, your Committee resolved to recommend—That
your Board pass the requisite resolutions and
direct a scheme to be prepared under sec. 39, of the Housing
of the Working Classes Act, 1890, for the improvement of
the area comprising the houses and premises as follows ;—