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powers to courts containing more than 10 houses. Since that,
at the suggestion of the Local Government Board to the Vestries,
to require their Medical Officer's attention to the courts which
were dangerous to health, I considered the matter, and again
made representations of the same courts and parts of courts
under Torrens' Act. The Sanitary Committee viewed these
courts, and the Vestry have taken the legal proceedings required
in regard to 11 of them, viz.:—Bishop's Court, Smith's Place,
John's Place, Exmouth Place, Bolton Court, Margaret Court,
Rhode's Buildings, Union Place, Slade's Place, Fox Terrace,
and 3 houses in Eagle Court, which are now under consideration
by the Vestry.
In July of the year, as the Cholera was very prevalent in
Egypt, and considering the great traffic between that country
and England, alarm arose, lest the disease should be brought
to our shores, and so be spread among us. Our Vestry, as I
believe were all others in the Metropolis, was at once supplied
with a set of rules or orders, by the Local Government Board, as
has always been done in former visitations of that epidemic.
The Vestry immediately took up the matter, and I drew up a
handbill as follows:—
Parish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell.
SANITARY PRECAUTIONS.
The Inhabitants of the Parish are earnestly advised to take the
following precautions during the present season of the year:—
1. Drainage, Refuse, &c.—To give notice at the Vestry Hall of
Defective Drainage, Choked Drains, or Offensive Water Closets; of
Accumulations of House Refuse, or other Decaying Animal or Vegetable
matters. It is also most important to burn all Vegetable Refuse.
2. Ventilation.—To keep the houses clean and well Ventilated,
especially the Sleeping Rooms.
3. Water Supply.—To clean out the Water Butts frequently; to
give notice at the Vestry Hall of defective supply; and especially of
any communication between the Waste-water pipe and the Water
Closet.
4. Improper Food.—To avoid eating Unripe or Stale Fruit, Stale
Fish, or Tainted Meat; also to be temperate in the use of Ale, Beer, or
other fermented Liquors.
5. Diarrhoea.—To obtain medicine, or seek medical advice immediately
diarrhœa comes on.