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56
New drains made 52
Sinks trapped 109
Cesspools filled up 48
Do. emptied 59
Repairing of yards 215
Water-butts cleansed and re-pitched 409
New butts replacing old 125
The adoption of the 35th section of the Sanitary Act by your Board, and
of regulations under the sanction of the Secretary of State for carrying it out,
are a great advance in hygienic progress. The Limehouse District is one
that has not felt the pressure of the defects incidental to an over-packed
population, so much as the weight of those privations which no legislative
enactment can wholly remove, to be found in the lowest grade of industrial
life, always more or less present amongst its many other concomitants,
poverty, but terribly felt, to this hour, among the tens of thousands since the
spring of 1866.
But I am well assured that you will, at the earliest opportunity, when
the dark cloud, now, and for so long hanging over this district, and the East
of London, shall have passed away, put into active operation tho regulations,
for the advantage of those classes lor whom they have been
beneficently designed.
The Inspection of the Bakehouses has been made, as usual, and the result
communicated, as generally, very satisfactory.
The slaughter-houses and cow-houses have alike fallen under my supervision.
This department of my duties has been much abridged by the very
stringent provisions found necessary to enforce the check to the cattle
disease, which, as you are aware, rather exceptionally, has shown itself in a
serious form in one dairy during the last year in the parish of Limehouse.
There are many well-wishers for the improved sanitary condition of London,
who look forward to the time when both slaughter-houses and dairies will be
regarded as out of keeping with the times, and obsolete.