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past six months, ending 25th March, 1878, to ascertain if
the nuisance continued. This nuisance was abated in
November last, and has not recurred to an extent to call
for any particular attention.
The corpse of a woman who died of smallpox, was found
on the premises of an imdertaker, in this parish, to which it
had been removed from Bethnal Green, and kept on the
premises four days. Body was removed and sanitary
notice served prohibiting a recurrence of the nuisance.
REMOVAL OF DUST.—During the past year the dust on the
whole has been fairly removed from the parish, but there
has been a larger number of applications for the removal of
dust from private premises than in the previous year. The
number of applications during the past year, as compared
with the number of applications during the previous
three years is here shewn.
Eastern Division. Western Division.
1st. 2nd. 3rd. 1st. 2nd. 3rd.
1877-78 .. 1163 4 0 2542 27 0
In the three previous years the average number was
1489 36 0 3518 121. 7
The plan of exposing the letter D in the front window when
an inhabitant requires the dust removed has answered satisfactorily;
but the dustman have not attended regularly in the respective streets
on the days named in the contract.
The removal of dust is better attended to than in years past,
but there are always large accumulations, speaking generally, and this
to a great extent is due to the neglect of the inhabitants themselves
in not sufficiently recognising the necessity for its removal. To