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tlic cast side vvero moreover found to be saturated with
sewage, which was ascertained to proceed from a large
dilapidated old sewer, against which these houses were built.
This sewer (which extended from the parish churchyard on
the north, to its junction with the sewer in Shoreditch on
the south, and passed in its course under two of the houses in
Ann's place, Boundary street) has been entirely emptied of
fcecal matter and filled up with limo rubbish. The owners
of the houses removed all the foul plaster on the basement
walls and have since rendered them in Portland cement. The
yards and areas have all becen paved with cement concrete.
The water-closets have been cleansed and repaired, and water
laid on. The defective drains havo been rclaid throughout,
portable dust boxes provided, and stack pipes and kitchen
sinks disconnected from drain.
EBENEZER PLACE, IVY LANE, 10 houses.—These houses
were generally dirty and dilapidated. Water for drinking
was stored in small and very foul butts. The yards were
very foul, and liquid filth soddened the ground under and
around the loose bricks intended for paving. Many of the
branch drains to these yards being mere shallow brick
trcnches had fallen in, and none of them were trapped.
The main drain of these houses (taking also the drainage of
Wilson's Dye Works at the rear) passed under the " living "
rooms of Nos. 5 and 0 to its connection with the " shallow
sewer" in Hammond Square. This brick barrell drain,
measuring 2 feet in diameter, passing diagonally under the
party wall of the houses referred to ; was found to be of the
most defective character, its crown was crushed with the
weight of the Avail in one part, and washed into a dilapitated
disjointed condition in another part, by the foul water
soddening the yard. The houses were infested with rats and
impregnated with foul odours.
It was represented to the Vestry that these houses
could not be properly drained, except by the provision of a