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closets and urinals, and is then discharged through an interception
trap into the sewer. There is thus actually only one connection
with the sower and that one trapped.
These extensive alterations have occupied much of ray time, and
they have been effected in the most satisfactory manner.
24 to 34, DE BEAUVOIR CRESCENT.
Those are six roomed houses, the lower hack rooms of which
wore dark and unfit for habitation being enclosed by wash houses
covering the full width of yards. The wash-houses also enclosed
the water closets and sinks, practically within the houses—and they
were of the most filthy and injurious description.
The owner, acting on my recommendation, has largely and
beneficially altered the back promises throughout. The drains
were relaid, the wash-houses and water-closets have been reconstructed
leaving an open yard abutting on the houses and giving
light and air to the lower back rooms. The water-closets built in
the open air are of my improved design, fitted with concrete floors
and with open space under seats. The yards on the level of ground
floor have boon extended, well paved and drained and fitted with
broad concrete stops rising three feet to the level of the rear part of
the yards.
Those alterations have effected a groat improvement on the
squalid conditions before existing.
SIMMONDS' SHOT FACTORY, APPOLD STREET.
On the ground floor of those promises there was a largo number
of furnaces and machines employed in the production of shot for
"Nordenfelt Guns." The hardening of the finished shot was
effected by dipping it while red hot into oil. The fumes arising
from this operation wore very offensive and they wore drawn by a
Bailey's ejector to the front of the promises and then discharged
into the street. Many persons living and working in the neighbourhood
complained of this as occasioning nausea. The work being
of a temporary character, the proprietor, acting on my