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Brixton, was fined £5 and costs for illegally slaughtering sheep.
I he fine and costs were paid.
On the 26th of February, 1873, Elizabeth Gosnell was fined
£10 10s. and costs for having houses in an unsanitary condition
and noncompliance with sanitary notice. The fine and costs
were paid.
In my last Report I congratulated the Vestry on the Epidemic
of Small pox, which had been prevailing since 1870, being nearly
extinrf; and I am happy to report that whilst these pages are
patting through the press (August, 1873,) we have been for now
more than two months, free from any deaths from this disease,
and only a solitary case here and there in the district. I trust
that the lesson taught us of the value of Vaccination and Re-
vacation may not be lost, and that the authorities with whom
the enforcing of this preventive measure rests will not neglect to
carry them out to their fullest extent.
Whilst there has been much done, there still requires more to
be done to bring lambeth into a high Sanitary condition. The
three chief requirements are to my mind the following,
namely, the Rules and Regulations for the prevention of
over Croarding, which up to the time these papers are passing
through the press, I have not been able to put in force
the erection of suitable Mortuaries, to which the bodies of personsdying
from Inleetious and Contagious Diseases can be removed
from crowded houses or dwellings; and lastly the establishment of
Baths and Wash Houses, especially the latter. I know nothing
more objectionable, in a sanitary point of view, than allowing the
washing of foul clothes in the dwellings of the poor; and still worse
the drying of them in courts and rooms already deficient of free
circulation of air and light.
Dr. Liddle, the Medical Officer of Whitechapel, in his Quarterly
Report for March, 1873, has the following very pertinent remarks
on this subject, which are so very valuable, and with which I fully
coincide, that 1 have given a short extract, they are as follows
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