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to draw your attention to it again on some future occasion.
The Dustyards of the District have come under my special
notice during the year. Complaints have been made to me
regarding the condition of Messrs. Abbott's yard in Dod
Street, and Mr. Parsons' yard in Lower Shadwell. At your
request I made a report on their condition, and elicited the fact that
the Limehouse District is the receptacle for a large portion of
the refuse of the neighbouring parishes of St. George, Poplar,
Bethnal Green, and Whitechapel. My Report was received by your
Board, and ordered to be printed and circulated among the members,
but as some of the gentlemen into whose hands this Annual Report
will fall were not at that time members of the Board, I subjoin a
copy of the Report then made by me.
"Report of the Medical Officer, presented to the Works Committee
on the 4th day of November, 1878, in reference to the Dust
Yards in the District being made a receptacle for the street refuse of
adjoining districts.
"To the Members of the Works Committee.
"Gentlemen,
"By the direction of the Board of Works for the Limehouse
District, I have made an inspection of the Dust Yards in the District,
and beg to report as follows:—
"In the Limehouse District there are three Dust Yards.
"They are owned or occupied by Messrs. P. & E. Abbott, of