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served specifying in detail the works required
in three of the worst cases, and informing the
owner that in the event of his failing to comply
within twenty eight days, the Vestry would cause
these works to be executed at his expense. This
notice not having been attended to within the
time specified, new drains were constructed
under the superintendence of the Surveyor, and
the expenses recovered. It was hoped that in
this limited exercise of their compulsory powers
the Sanitary Committee had taken a course which
would lead to the improvement of the whole property.
This hope was not however realized, and
on the 17th of December, I had again occasion
to report unfavourably as to the houses Nos. 2—
20, in Dudley Street; the Committee thereupon
resolved to make a personal inspection, in consequence
of which the owner was required to pave
or re-instate the pavement of the yard in each
of these houses, to provide proper traps for the
inlets to the drains, and to erect a sufficient number
of covered cisterns, fitted with suitable selfclosing
valves, and water-supply pipes at a sufficient
height for the effectual scouring of the
water closets. The works not having been carried
out, I was authorized on the 4th of February
to place the matter in the hands of the Vestry
Solicitor. The further steps which were taken,
and their results, will be related in my next
Annual Statement.