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On representations made by mo, your Board passed a resolution
in June to the effect that the contractors should be required to
provide covers to their dust-carts to prevent the contents thereof
blowing about in windy weather, and from being spilled during
transit. So far as I am aware nothing has yet been done in this
direction.
The Limehouse Cut came under my notice in July, in consequence
of the cleaning out of the same ; the stench was abominable,
and several cases of sore throat, caused, I have no doubt, by the
malific exhalations from the mud, occurred in houses situated on the
banks of the Cut. A communication was sent by your Board to
the Conservators of the Lea, to which they replied regretting the
occurrence and promising greater care in the future.
The deterioration of water in impure cisterns occupied your
attention, and the inspectors were instructed to make special
inspections of the water receptacles, and report thereon. This
work was a very necessary one, as the water-cistern is frequently
the receptacle of matter other than water. I have seen decayed
animal and vegetable matter in the water-butt, together with living
animalculse, not to mention brickbats and broken crockery. In
addition to these matters, the water is liable to become contaminated
by noxious vapours from untrapped drains and closets and emanations