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The Inspector of Nuisances Reports as follows:
I beg to submit for your information the following summary of
proceedings taken for the removal of nuisances, and the number of
constructive works completed for the sanitary improvement of the Parish
during the year ending March 25th, 1862.
I inspected 2730 houses, these include a number of streets where
house to house visitations were made, for the purpose of ascertaining
the actual state of the drainage, and the existence of cesspools; the
result has been that in the course of the year 377 cesspools have been
emptied and filled up, 538 proper water closets have been erected in the
place of open privies, all provided with proper trapped soil pans, and drains
to the sewers; 99 house drains have been cleansed and repaired, thus providing
an efficient drainage for 637 houses; the pavement in many of the
yards has been repaired, and provision made for the proper drainage of
the surface water; 43 houses have been provided with dust bins, and 10
additional windows have been put in to improve ventilation; and
121 houses that had been the seat of contagious disease were either
wholly or partially limewashed. While these improvements have not
been confined to any particular locality but extended over the entire
length and breadth of the parish, yet the largest portion have been in
the Wards of Haggerstone and Kingsland.
Boston Street where the drainage was very defective, especially on
the East side, where foul privies and cesspools were close to the doors
and windows of the houses, and where they were seldom without Fever
or some other infectious disease, has been entirely changed, and the
inhabitants are now enjoying an immunity from sickness altogether unknown
before; all the cesspools have been abolished, proper water closets
have been erected, and all drained to the sewer. A number of the houses
on the West side have also been done and the remainder will soon follow.
York-street Hackney-road, Great Cambridge-street, Cumberlandstreet,
Brunswick-street, Mansfield-street, York-street Kingsland-road,
Fellows-street, and Rutland-street, have all been greatly improved, by
the abolition of cesspools, the erection of water closets and proper
drains. Since the sewers were constructed in Canal- road and William-street
adjoining, the houses there have also been much benefited, many of them
which were previously almost unfit for habitation have been drained and
rendered healthy and comfortable.