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5.—A cottage in a yard behind the Red Lion
Tavern has been disinhabited as dangerous to
health.
6.—A small house in Desboro' Street, situated
partly behind other houses in a dark corner, having
a high wall on one side, houses on another, and no
through ventilation, by windows opening behind.
This still stands for consideration.
7.—Three shops in Praed Street, having dark
cellars below, used for dwellings, are to be disinhabited;
having also been condemned as dangerous
to human life, for want of sufficient air, light, ventilation,
and inefficient closet accommodation.
The course of proceedings instituted under the
Act are now being carried out by the Vestry Solicitor,
and a special Surveyor. Meanwhile it appears
to me a very complicated, cumbrous and expensive
machinery for effecting the simple and wholesome
duty of a "local authority," charged with "taking
down, or improving dwellings occupied by working
men and families, which are unfit for human
habitation."
Vacant Building Plots in the Open Fields.
Numerous complaints reach me of nuisances on
the vacant building plots and open fields in the
North-West parts of the Parish. I find them,
upon inspection, to be in a condition far from
creditable to the owners, and I may say detrimental
to the interests of the Parish as well as to