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(2) The sanitary defects in the remainder are not such that they
cannot be remedied otherwise than by an improvement scheme.
(3) There is an entire absence of present general or zymotic
sickness.
(4) The occurrence of zymotic disease during the previous six
years has been almost confined to a few cases at Nos. 14, 15, and 16,
Carnaby Street, which are to be rebuilt by the owner.
(5) The only house that could be condemned, in its present state,
as "unfit for human habitation," is No. 2, Marlborough Row, where
there is a prevalence of a low condition of health, due to its being
occupied too soon after construction.
Having regard to the terms of Dr. Dumbleton's report,
the Vestry felt that it was useless to pursue the matter further,
beyond, referring the report to the Sanitary Committee with
a view to action being taken for the amelioration of individual
houses from time to time. The Vestry, however, feel that it
must be highly satisfactory to the parishioners that a
thorough investigation of the two areas which are admittedly
those most open to objection from a sanitary point of view
should have, somewhat unexpectedly, yielded such results.
ST. JAMES'S DWELLINGS.
This property continues to be well let, although necessarily
there is a frequent change of tenants.
During the year the Vestry have been able to invest £200
as the commencement of a sinking fund to replace the capital
on the expiration of the leases.
The use of the laundry in the basement having been found
to be detrimental to the building, in consequence of the confined
situation of the room preventing the steam escaping
freely, the Yestry decided to discontinue the same, and to let
the room for other purposes. In view of the contiguity of
the Public Wash-houses in Dufour's Place, where every