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Court were reported, in accordance with this Act, by your
Medical Officer of Health to the Metropolitan Board to be
unfit for human habitation.
The Board, as yet, have not decided to bring these
dwellings under an improvement scheme.
TORREN'S ACT: ARTIZANS' DWELLINGS IMPROVEMENT
ACT, 1868.—Your Medical Officer also reported that the
dwellings of Ann's Place were dangerous to health. That
owing to their decayed and dirty condition, and to their
structural defects, they were unfit for human habitation. The
Surveyor, directed by your Vestry to examine these premises,
as required by the Act, reported that they could not, by
structural alterations, be made fit for human habitation.
The Vestry therefore ordered the houses to be pulled
down, but the Owner refused to carry out this order. In the
next report it will be my duty to state to your Vestry the
subsequent proceedings.
CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY.—The Sanitary Authorities of the
Parish have for several years endeavoured to obtain for the
inhabitants a -constant supply of water. Many difficulties had
to be overcome, but it was certain that the inhabitants, owing
to the dirty condition of the receptacles, had not a proper
supply of water for drinking purposes.
Your Vestry therefore requested the Metropolitan Board,
empowered by the Water Act, to direct the New River
Company to give a constant supply to the Parish of
Shoreditch. The Metropolitan Board declined to make the
required order; and the New River Company, when requested
by your Vestry, declined to put the Water Act in operation
and introduce the constant supply until they were ordered to
do so by the Metropolitan Board or the Local Government
Board.