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Egypt last year did good work in this country by drawing such
attention to sanitary matters as to give a great impetus to
sanitation generally which will bear good fruit in the future.
Elizabeth Court, Brook Street, is a locality which has often
received consideration at your hands. It appeared to me, however,
that it had arrived at a point past patching up, and I accordingly
made my Report to your Board on the Court, under the provisions of
Torrens's Acts, with a view to procuring the demolition of the
property. The Surveyor, after inspection, confirmed my Report,
but in consequence of the clause in the Act, which gives power to
the owner to require the sanitary authority to purchase the condemned
property, your Hoard decided to proceed under the
Nuisances Removal Act, and ask the magistrate to close the houses.
This was done. The magistrate's order was obtained and the
houses were closed.
In October I made a representation to the Metropolitan Hoard
under the provisions of the Artisans and Labourers Dwelling'
Acts, 1875, regarding an unsanitary area in Shadwell. The area in
question is bounded on the north by the houses in Cable Street, on
the south by houses in High Street, Shadwell, on the west by
Victoria Street, and on the east by Albert Street. It comprises
Baroda Place, Hastings Place, Chancery Court, Chancery Place,
Angel Gardens, Angel Court, Fortunate Place, Chapel Place and
V ictoria Place. Many of the houses are built back to back, most of
them are in a bad structural state, and the death rate for the last
three years averaged 44 per 1,000 per annum. The locality has
been inspected and reported on more frequently than any other
single locality in your District, and the work of patching up has
been going on there, more or less constantly, for years past. It
therefore appeared to me to be a fit area to proceed upon under the
above named Act.