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Sanitary Work.
For the details of routine Sanitary inspections I beg to r« for
you to Table VI.
The premises of Messrs. Wickens, Pease & Co., Bone boilers, of
Broad Bridge, Shadwell, came under my notice several times. The
nuisance from this place is intermitting ; at one time it arisen from
the bones collected for boiling, at another from the contents of the
bone hole, and at another from the general dirtiness of the premises.
Nothing but systematic and frequent visitation prevents these
premises from becoming an intolerable nuisance to the neigh
bourhood.
The Limehouse Cut was frequently under observation, and
examinations of the water in the Cut were made, but re\ealed
nothing of importance. I am confident that the complaints made
of smell from the Cut, take their origin in the majority of cases from
the offensive nature of the cargoes of many of the barges.
Measles prevailed in the Autumn to such an extent in the
neighbourhood of the Gill Street and Northey Street Board Schools
that I suggested to the Managers the advisability of closing them.
My advice having been acted upon the epidemic declined and the
Schools were opened again in about a month.
From the Linde British Refrigeration Company I received
grievous complaints of nuisance arising from the man hole
and sewer grating in front of their premises in Lower
Shadwell. Various representations were made regarding it to the
Metropolitan Board of Works, but the steps taken were only palliative
and from time to time the complaints were renewed. The nuisance
arising from the sewer gratings in the District is very serious and