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??? complains that her house is thereby rendered damp and un???me,
and her health injured.
???e the last meeting there have fewer complaints against the cat-gut
??? in Clark's Orchard. This fact may be accouuted for by the
???r having become cooler, and by the maker employing an increased
???ty of disinfectants.
???ty-eight deaths were registered last month in Rotherhithe. De???g
from this number one death from violence and seven from
???nt, there remain forty from disease, or about the monthly average.
???were seven deaths from diarrhoea, no other epidemic disease being
??? sent prevalent in the neighbourhood.
Yours respectfully,
???ober, 1861. W. MURDOCH.
SEVENTIETH REPORT.
???lemen,
???mplaints are occasionally made in different parts of the Western
???ion of Rotherhithe, of the deficiency of the water supply from the
???wark and Vauxhall Company. No place has suffered more from
???deficiency than the neighbourhood of Clare Hall Cottages. In
???arly part of October, a message and a letter signed by a great
???er of the inhabitants of that district were sent to me, to the effect,
???the cottages had been for a week without water at all, and that
??? by chance it did come on, it was in bo small a quantity as not to
???fficient for the household purposes of one day. I immediately
???essed myself to the turncock, who did his best to remedy the evil,
???on enquiry a few days ago I found that the supply had been very
??? better than before complaint was made. It appears to me that
???cantiness of water in many places in Rotherhithe is in some mea???
owing to the great waste which daily takes place, and that it would
???uch to the benefit of the public, and also to the profit of the com???,
if some surveillance were exercised over the butts and receiving
???ls, and if such butts and vessels were properly fitted with ball-taps
rither apparatus for cutting off the supply when they are filled. In
present state of things, the loss of water from the low services is so
???t, that a cistern placed fifteen or twenty feet above the level of the
??? often receives no water, or is only partially filled even on those
ts when the pressure is highest at the central works.
???n Monday, 28th October, the summons taken out against the catmaker
in Clark's Orchard was partly heard at the Greenwich Police
???rt. The case was adjourned for six weeks to give to the proprietor
???e to use the best means in his power to mitigate or suppress the