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upon the Vestry the desirability of widening the narrow
portion of Saint John Street between Aylesbury Street and
Albemarle Street. The Vestry referred the matter to a Committee
for consideration, who directed the Surveyor to prepare
a ground plan of the property which would be required
to be taken and to report upon the matter ; and the question
was at this stage at Lady-day, 1884.
Colney Hatch Lane.—The Vestry regret that no solution
of the difficulties connected with the drainage of the houses
on the Clerkenwell side of this lane has yet been found.
It will be remembered that in the last Report, it was stated
that the Vestry had called upon the Metropolitan Board of
Works to provide a system of sewerage for the locality, but
that no reply had then been received from them. The
question is apparently still in the same stage, no reply
having yet been received. It is understood that, owing to
the configuration of the ground, a junction with the Metropolitan
system could only be accomplished at an enormous
outlay, and as the houses to be drained are very few, it is
hoped that some arrangements may be come to with one of
the Local Boards of the adjacent districts, but at present
this desirable consummation is not reached, and complaints
continue to be made of nuisances for the want of proper
means of drainage.
Cholera.*—The action taken by the Vestry in anticipation
of an epidemic of Cholera in the summer and autumn of
1883, will be found fully set forth in the Report of the
Medical Officer of Health, at page 59.
Sanitary condition of Clerkenwell.—On the 25th
January a Deputation from the Mansion House Council on
the Dwellings of the Poor had an interview with Sir Charles
Dilke, President of the Local Government Board, and Sir
* A very interesting Table, issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, showing
the relative prevalence of Cholera in the various districts in the Metropolis
during the visitations in 1832-3, 1849, 1854, and 1866, will be found as
Appendix (No. 2), at pages 98 & 99, and will have special interest for Clerken-
well at the present time.