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INSPECTOR FLETCHER'S REPORT.
St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Sanitary Department.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I beg leave to report to you that during the year ending
March 25th, 1877, the conditions named below have caused nuisances
dangerous to health, and were inspected and remedied under my
supervision.
Corpses decomposing, removed from dwellings 10
Closet drains obstructed, and repaired and cleansed 18
Water supply re-instated in 39 dwellings
Surface wells ordered to be abolished in 4 premises
Accumulations of dung, &c., removed from 18 „
Carriage and footways—(on private property) —
paved in 29 „
Rooms overcrowded in 11 dwellings
MINOR NUISANCES.—Nuisances in dwellings not referred
to Inspector Alexander (little alteration only needed)
such as defects in roofs, floors, yards, &c. 21