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Twenty-one summonses were taken out during the year to
compel compliance with notices served to remedy sanitary defects,
and in all cases the magistrate's order was obtained to carry out
the work ordered by the Vestry; these include the eleven summonses,
taken out under the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
relating to Artillery square.
Twenty-five other summonses were ordered to be taken out,
but the owners of the property immediately commenced and
carried out the works satisfactorily.
One application was made to a magistrate to condemn as
"unfit for the food of man" a quantity of fish, and another to
order the removal and burial of a body. Both of these orders
were granted and the orders carried out.
No premises have been demolished in the parish this year.
No. 6 St. Ann's-street was closed as unfit for human habitation.
Artillery-square had not been closed before the 25th of March,
but all the necessary notices from the Vestry to the occupiers had
been served and some of the occupiers had removed, and the
solicitor was dealing with the others as provided under the Act.
I am Sir,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS GEORGE DEE.