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General Sanitary Matters.
The Sanitary Work for the year is particularised in detail in the
manuscript tables appended to the Report which is furnished to the
County Council, also an epitome of the same will be found at the end
of the present Report, compiled by Mr. Henry Baxter (Assoc. Sanitary
Institute) the Sanitary Inspector.
(a) Insanitary Houses.
In January No i, Mount Pleasant Cottages, Southall, was
reported in an insanitary condition. The bedrooms were found to be
very damp and dirty, and required to be thoroughly done out. The
scullery outer wall dilapidated and letting water in. The Inspector
served 3 days' notice to commence the necessary work which was
complied with.
In February I reported as follows on Newell's Cottages, Mount
Pleasant, Southall.—These premises have been inspected by the
Inspector, Surveyor and myself. We concluded that the amount of
sanitary acccommodation provided is not sufficient, there being but
two closets in a common yard for the five houses, with a population
of 19-21 persons.
Moreover, the buildings are dilapidated, the pans very dirty,
which is a source of great annoyance to better tenants of some of the
houses. The yard is unpaved : the surface very uneven and must be
a source of nuisance in wet weather.
In May I inspected numbers 4-18, Featherstone Terrace,
Southall Green and found many defects and dilapidations coming
under the 91st Section of the Public Health Act. Notice was served
to put the premises into a proper state of repair and sanitary condition.
This was complied with.
(b) Overcrowding.
Six cases of overcrowding were investigated during the year. All
were of families living on the South Side of the District and in one or
two instances were of a very injurious character. In each case the
notice served to abate the nuisance was complied with.
(c) Nuisances from Refuse.
In January complaints were received as to a heap of refuse being
unloaded from a barge on the Canal at Windmill Bridge. The
refuse consisted of street sweepings, etc., and the chief source of
nuisance arose from the burning of sacks, paper, etc. Measures were
taken to abate the same. In July, complaints were received as to foul
smells in the district which apparently came from the neighbourhood
of the canal in the District of the Uxbridge Rural Authority. We
made an inspection along the canal bank and found two deposits of
refuse which were apparently the cause; a recent deposit adjoining
Spike Bridge was in a state of combustion and giving off offensive
fumes, and from an enormous heap adjoining the dock at
Yeading large volumes of offensive smoke were being
given off, which would undoubtedly give rise to the nuisance