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the annoyance of the population of the court. A notice was
served.
It being the intention of your Medical Officer and the Inspector
to go gradually and methodically through the parish, and to examine,
if possible, every dwelling therein (without any regard to
persons, whoever they may be), in order that the provisions of the
Act of Parliament may be properly and effectually carried out, on
22nd April I went, in company with Mr. Sanders, along the east
side of Love Lane. It would be useless for me to take up your
valuable time with the details of all the abominations that came
under my notice in that short sanitary tour. I shall, therefore,
state matters succinctly. At No. 1, (Rix's) the closets were clean and
without smell, the only things wanting were a pan and water. At
No. 2, (Goodwin's) everything was in perfect order, and the state of
the drains stood out in bright contrast with the rest of the row.
At Nos. 18, 19, 20, and 21, Love Court, there were two closets with
pan and water. At all the other houses, from 3 to 18, the bogs
were generally full, and those that were not full were foul and offensive.
The drains, too, were all untrapped. Notices were served.
One house, No. 25, on the west side of Love Lane, tenant, Stanley,
was also visited. A notice was served.
On the 15th April I directed my attention to a row of houses in
Paradise Street, called Spring Court. The houses are of brick,
eight in number, and appear substantially built. Six of them are
empty, Nos. 5 and 6 only being tenanted. The windows of nearly all
are broken, and the woodwork looks as if it had not felt the
renovating touch of the painter for a quarter of a century, the whole
row presenting to the eye of the observer the appearance of wretchedness
and desolation. I entered the inhabited houses, the doors
being all open. The privy of No. 5 is full; that of No. 6, nearly
so; they are said to communicate with a drain which has become
choked up. The drains are untrapped and the water supply insufficient,
a butt containing thirty or forty gallons standing between two
yards. I recommend this row to the District Inspecting Committee,
as it is a disgrace to the owner, and I was about also to say, a disgrace
to the parish. On emerging from the houses into the court
I remarked a stream of stinking yellow fluid rushing from a neighbouring
cow-house and stable into the drain, of which the grating is
out of repair. The cow-house and stables are at the back of the
house, 8, Paradise Street, occupied by West. I told this man that
it would be much more wholesome for the public if he caused his
filth to flow under ground instead of above. A notice was served a
few days after.
I then passed on to the house, 10, Paradise Street, Carpenter,
tenant; he states that soil from the privies in Pas field's Rents
(of which more hereafter) filters through the wall, and runs into his
wash-house. A notice was served.
Pasfield's Rents were next inspected. The row consists of seven