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When the late Chairman of the Sanitary Committee states
that there are several houses with only one closet, he should
have stated that these were condemned, by me, and by
the Vestry in 1875, and referred to the Metropolitan Board of
Works, and remained in their hands until last year, when they
threw them up. I again condemned them, under Torrens' Act,
my condemnation was supported by the Sanitary Committee and
the Vestry, and they are now under the ordinary legal process
of that Act, to be finally dealt with; although such condition
is distinctly permitted by the 81st Section of the Metropolis
Management Act.
Sanitary Proceedings.—The ordinary course of these is,
that all complaints of nuisances entered in the Vestry's complaint
book, are at once attended to by the three inspectors. When in
case of infectious disease is reported, the case is examined into.
If removed, the premises are disinfected, the beds baked in the
oven, and handbills on precautionary measures are left in the
house. If not, the case is watched until the patient is sufficiently
recovered, when the same measures are adopted. Carbolic acid
is freely distributed, and a sheet saturated with the same is
nailed up outside the door of the infected room. Any corpse
found in a living room is at once removed to the mortuary, if
necessary by a magistrates order. Only one such was required
during the year. Instances of overcrowding are remedied as
soon as the time required for the finding of fresh lodgings has
elapsed. In the warm weather, carbolic acid water is used for
watering the streets, the gullies are disinfected twice a week;
and the various courts are also flushed and disinfected twice
weekly. The carbolic acid used last year in these proceedings
cost more than £130.
The Meteorology of the year was as follows:—