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Ponsonby, J.P., L.C.C., was again chosen to be Chairman,
and Mr. Thomas Horn, Vice-Chairman. The work of this
Committee has been unusnally heavy, and any attempt to
treat, however meagrely, with the multitudinous and
diverse matters considered by the Committee, would defeat
in itself the brevity insisted upon in the first sentences of
this report. The Committee have presented at every
meeting of the Vestry, full and explanatory reports upon
questions of wood and asphalte paving, drainage, lighting,
projections and other obstructions, street nomenclature,
street refuges, sewer ventilation, vaults, hoardings, urinals,
electric lighting, new roads, flooding of basements St.
John's-garden, subways, and other matters, which will be
found entered in full on the Vestry's Minutes of Proceedings,
and need not therefore be further referred to. The
several street improvements which have been prominently
before the Committee during the year, are briefly dealt
with under the heading of "Street Improvements," at
page 19.
THE STREET CLEANSING AND SANITARY COMMITTEE.
Unhealthy
dwellings.
Mr. H. N. B. Spink, M.L.S.B., was re-elected Chairman and
Mr. J. Fergusson, Vice Chairman at the first meeting of the
Street Cleansing and Sanitary Committee, which met twentythree
times. The past year has been an important and
busy one with this Committee. The beneficent provisions
of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890,
were actively but temperately exercised by the
Committee, whose recommendations led to twenty-nine
houses beinsr closed as unhealthy and unfit for human
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habitation. The Committee had also to lay a complaint
against the Peabody-buildings in James-street, the Vestry's
surveyor and medical officer having reported that the dustshafts
were so constructed as to be a positive danger to the
inmates of the dwellings ; and the latter-named officer