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UNHEALTHY AREA AT SHADWELL.
The Medical Officer of Health having made an Official
Representation to the Metropolitan Board of Works as to an
unhealthy area at Shadwell, bounded on the North by houses in
Cable Street, on the South by houses in High Street, on the East
by Albert Street, and on the West by Victoria Street, a Committee
of the Metropolitan Board inspected the area, and that Board
resolved not to prepare an Improvement Scheme for dealing
therewith.
Subsequently, the Home Secretary (Sir W. V. Harcourt) was
furnished, by request, with a report by the Medical Officer as to the
course adopted by the Metropolitan Board, and Sir Charles Dilke
(President of the Local Government Board) having inspected the
area comprised in the Official Representation, the Home Secretary
has directed Mr. I). Cubitt Nichols to hold a Local Inquiry,
pursuant to Section 8 of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings
Improvement Act, 1875, into the correctness of the Official
Representation and with a view to the making a Scheme for the
improvement of the area.
VENTILATION OF SEWERS.
In consequence of numerous complaints of the effluvia from the
Sewers in the District, the Board made a Regulation that all new
drains, and all old drains re-constructed, should be ventilated by
means of a pipe carried up a sufficient height above the highest
part of tho building, to prevent noxious gases entering the chimneys
or windows of such building, or any building adjacent thereto.
THE METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT (THAMES RIVER PREVENTION OF
FLOODS) AMENDMENT ACT, 1879.
The Metropolitan Board of Works served an order upon the
Board to construct certain works to prevent flooding in the public
passage leading from Church Row, Limehouse, to the Limehouse
Cut. The required works have been carried out.