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erines could work, there being at the time seven or eight preset.
As this subject interests the lives as well as the property
of the parishioners, I have thought it my duty to submit it to
the consideration of this Board.
Complaints have been made by Mr. Carpenter, of No. 10,
P'adise-street, of the overflow of soil into his yard from the
spools in Pasfield's Rents. I cannot better describe the place
??? by making an extract from one of my previous reports:—
The row consists of seven houses. The yards at the back are
about two feet wide, and each yard extends the length of the
??? responding building. In this narrow space the builder has
managed to stow a privy a few feet from the back door. The
pvies, in two of the houses, were crammed to the boards— in all
a highly disgusting state— and every time the back door is
scened a puff of gas is let in. Well one woman might tell me
that she had lost two children with the cholera during the last
academic, and that two other persons in the court died of the
scene complaint; four out of twenty-four, or one-sixth of the
??? population of the place. The privies, however, remain
??? the same state as they were in 1849 and 1854, exhaling
their successive instalments of putrefaction and death, and waiting
quietly till some other epidemic comes to more than decimate
??? inhabitants of the row, unless the merciful hand of this
vestry interfere to prevent such a calamity."
After that report the privies were emptied, but they are now
worse condition than ever, the soil penetrating into the houses,
and overflowing into the yards of the neighbours. The only
comedy would be the introduction of proper drainage. A notice
has been served. The other houses mentioned in the Agenda
paper require improved drainage.
The huge dustheap in the Rotherhithe New-road has again
seen visited by myself and the Inspector (29th July), and
though some efforts are evidently, being made to hide the
naturefying animal and vegetable matter, the south-east end of
the heap emitted at the time of my visit a fetid nauseous smell,
which might easily be accounted for by the quantity of recently
collected house refuse lying there. Sixteen loads a-day (often
more) are brought to this place. I can see no reason for altering
he opinion on this nuisance given in my last report.
The ditch running by the side of the heap is in a foul state
and wants flushing.
Forty-two deaths were registered in Rotherhithe during the
past month, among which four were from scarlatina, one from
measles, one from hooping-cough, one from typhoid fever, and
three from diarrhœa. Several cases of the latter disease have