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from Scarlatina, the Hospital authorities had decided that no
new cases should be received on the orders of Vestries. I mention
this circumstance in order to point out to your Board the
extremely precarious nature of the extent of Hospital accommodation
for non-pauper patients which at present exists in the
Metropolis.
On the 11th of the same month I reported to your Board
that a Fish Manure Factory had been established on Gould's
Hill, Shadwell, contrary to the provisions of the Slaughter Houses
(Metropolis) Act, 1874. Your Board thereupon directed a communication
to be addressed to the Metropolitan Board (the authority
under the Act) upon the subject, but on the 20th October, the
nuisance not having been abated I attended at the Thames Police
Court in support of a summons taken out by the Inspector of
Nuisances for No. 2 District, against the proprietor of the premises.
The Magistrate made an order to abate the nuisance complained of
forthwith and against the recurrence of the same. The nuisance
was abated within a few hours and the offensive material removed
with as little delay as possible,
Chancery Court and Chancery Place, Shadwell, came under my
notice on two or three occasions during the year. The inhabitants
of these Courts are distinguished by a total disregard of sanitary
laws and decent behaviour. Nothing can keep these places in
order but frequent visitations of the Sanitary Inspector.
Towards the end of the year there were signs that a representation
made by me in 1877 to the Metropolitan Board of Works,
under the Artisans' Dwellings' Acts, 1875-82, regarding a certain area