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The Vestry gave the Medical Officer of Health authority
to engage forthwith temporary assistance to inspect the
premises referred to and others, and to take such immediate
steps as might be necessary to ensure the remedy of the
defects specified.
The Medical Officer in a later report to the Vestry
summarised, as under, the amount of work done by the
temporary Inspectors.
The number of houses examined were :—
St. Margaret's 250
St. John's 659
Knightsbridge 63
Total 972
and as a consequence of the examination notices were
served as under :—
St. Margaret's 234
St. John's 152
Knightsbridge 63
Total 449
Underground
Rooms.
The Vestry were not called upon to take any
action on the half-yearly reports of the District
Surveyors of underground rooms or cellars used as dwellings,
or sleeping places contrary to the 103rd section of 18 and
19 Vict., cap. 120.
Public
Mortuary.
The total number of bodies received at the
mortuary, Millbank Street, during the year,
was 39. A few only were removed to the mortuary to
await burial, in consequence of insufficient accommodation
in dwelling houses or apartments, the majority being taken
to the mortuary by the Police (riverside, street accidents,
suicides, &c.), to await coroner's inquests.
Cow-houses
and
Slaughter.
houses.
Notices of intention to apply for renewal of
licenses were received in respect of eight cowhouses
and ten slaughter-houses. The premises
referred to in the notices were, as usual, inspected by the