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Sanitary Work.
In the year 1882, 98 formal notices were served
upon the owners or occupiers of property, besides
numerous verbal recommendations to remedy sanitary
defects. One summons was taken out. The owner
of 66, Drury Lane, allowed an underground dwelling,
not meeting the requirements of the Act, to be
inhabited in defiance of two notices served upon
him for its vacation. The summons was heard
before Mr. Flowers, at Bow Street, when the owner
was fined forty shillings and costs.
Two houses, 1 and 2, Little Catherine Street,
which had been a source of trouble and annoyance
for many years, owing to their dilapidated, unsanitary
and dirty condition, were closed without resorting to
legal measures, the owner consenting to shut them
up.
The pipe-sewers have been regularly flushed, those
gullies emitting offensive effluvia have also been
flushed with carbolic acid and water, and the several
courts and passages in the Parish lime-whited.
In conclusion, I must again bear testimony to the
zeal and intelligence of your Inspector in the discharge
of his duties, and also acknowledge with
thanks, the promptitude with which the Relieving