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Q.— No. 9.— What regulations
existed with regard to the
inspection and improvements
of Courts, Alleys, and
Dwellings, and for Lighting
and Paving in your Parish
or District in 1856, and what
are the regulations now in
force ?
Q.— No. 10.— How many additional
Street Lamps have
been put up since 1856 ?
Q.— No. 11.— What is the Sanitary
and general condition
of the Parish compared
with what it was before
1856?
A.— The regulations for the inspection
and improvement of Courts,
&c., in 1856, were as now, except
that of inspection and improvement
of Dwellings. The
Local Management Act has given
theVestry power to inspect houses
and cause the abatement of
nuisances where any exist, and
the Artizans' and Labourers'
Dwellings Act gives theVestry
power to condemn dilapidated
dwellings, &c.
A.— Forty-one.
A.— This question may be answered
in two ways, either by assuming
the general rate of mortality, and
that resulting from zymotic
diseases (which are specially considered
to represent the sanitary
or unsanitary state of a Parish)
as a standard; or considering the
number of noxious influences remaining
or removed during the
interval under consideration.
Unfortunately, the first form of answer is very difficult of application
to the case of Clerkenwell Parish— for so many houses have been palled
down, and others re-built, that we have no exact knowledge of the
number of inhabitants.