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large an accumulation of dust, and the failure on your part to
remove the grievance of the rate-payers, have induced the Committee
to pass a Resolution, empowering me to take such steps as
1 may deem necessary to protect them.
I therefore think right to inform you, that unless you comply
with the terms of your Contract, and reduce the large number of
requests for dust removal, by having the carts in streets twice in
every week, and undertake to remove the dust from the houses,
either at the verbal request of the inhabitants of the said house, or
on the intimation of requiring dust removal, by the Letter D in the
window, or by the notice to you from the Vestry, I shall feel it my
duty to cause the dust to be removed, with or without further
notice to you, than herewith stated, at your expense. I need
scarcely say that it is absolutely necessary for the health and comfort
of the inhabitants that prompt and vigorous efforts should
be made to remedy this scandalous neglect on your part to remove
the dust.
I have instructed the Inspectors of Nuisances to inspect and
report all cases to me of the neglect of removal; and shall not
hesitate to act on the terms of your Contract, and employ carts and
men to remove and dispose of the dust, &c., accumulated on premises
throughout this Parish.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
WM. HARDWICKE,
Medical Officer of Health.
Slaughter-houses.
There are 26 slaughter-houses in this Parish, which
are as usual visited and reported upon by the
Inspector Clifford, although last year the new Act
places them under the Metropolitan Board of Works,
they have only recently issued their new Bye-Laws for
the future regulation. They have within the last three
years been greatly improved by having the cattle-pens