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SECTION V.
SPECIAL, SANITARY MATTERS
Water Supply.
The supply for the Borough is from three sources
Deep Well, Petersham Well, and Southwark and
Vauxhall Water Company.
Street
Improvement
Committee.
The work in connection with the widening of George
Street has made satisfactory progress during the year,
many of the old houses in the street have been
demolished, and new structures are in course of
erection.
Housing of the
Working
Classes Act.
In February the Medical Officer of Health made a
representation, under Part II. of the 1890 Act, to the
Health Committee that three dwelling houses Nos.
117, 119 & 121, Kew Road, were unfit for human
habitation. The Committee (confirmed by the Council) authorised
that all necessary proceedings against the owners or occupiers
should be taken for closing the dwellings. As a result the houses
were closed without legal proceedings.
The houses built by the Corporation under Part III. of the
1890 Act, continue to be in a satisfactory condition, and all are
occupied.
Mortuary.
The total number of bodies taken to the Mortuary
during the year was 45 ; inquests being held on 41 of
these. Post-mortem examinations were made upon 39, viz., 23
males and 16 females.