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airy places. This has been done in 195 premises; and
another advantage is the newly erected dust bins are much
more serviceable because much better constructed.
Day by day inspections to ascertain the dangerous
conditions, to secure their removal, and to ensure the work
being well done, required much care and energy. This is
evidenced from the fact that 5311 separate nuisances,
dangerous to health, were removed during the year.
WATER SUPPLY.—The constant supply from the New River
Company has worked well. The inhabitants draw the water
direct from the main in a large number of premises, but in a
number of others cisterns are retained, and whilst the practice
may be excused it exposes the water to dirt in the air, and in the
cisterns, &c. Cisterns are retained from the apprehension
that the Water Company may fail to continue the constant
supply; and the supply has been discontinued for a few hours
on more than one occasion during the year, but the inhabitants
have stated that the inconvenience therefrom has been small,
and little complaint of it has been made to the Sanitary
Department. Water butts doubtless are retained in some of
the smaller dwellings, but the Sanitary Authorities have lost
no opportunity of inducing or compelling the owners to
remove them and supply the premises with water for drinking
purposes direct from the main.
The East London Water Company's district in Shoreditch,
has also the Constant Service, and on the whole has
worked well.
The inhabitants from a part of the district (High street,
Shoreditch) attended before the Vestry and Sanitary Committee
and complained that the second and higher stories of their
houses were unsupplied with water, and they were inconsequence
put to great inconvenience. The Medical Officer reported to the
Vestry, as follows—"That from the representation recently