IMPROVING.
The principal charges under this head are for works over the Ranelagh sewer at Sloane Square in rebuilding the south wall; and in fencing the enclosure opposite Royal Avenue Terrace.
REMOVING NUISANCES.
The removal of the dust, ashes and refuse from the houses of the inhabitants, and the public courts and alleys during this year has cost £311 2s. An alteration in the form of the contract as to the mode of executing the works by which the parish is divided into daily districts, was made during this year, which has very greatly lessened the public inconvenience, and consequently the number of complaints. See Appendix No. 11 (page 57).
SANITARY MEASURES.
The return of the proceedings taken by the vestry under the metropolis local management act and the nuisances removal act, as required by the former statute to be published, will be found in the Appendix No. 12 (page 60).
Forty-seven slaughter houses in the parish were licensed by the magistrates in October, 1860, not one having been opposed by the vestry. A list of them is given in the Appendix No. 13 (page 61).
The tenant of No. 3, Queen’s Road East, having been detected in slaughtering upon his premises which were not licensed for that purpose, the attention of the board was called to the subject, but as it appeared that he had been acting under the impression that the premises were licensed, in place of other proceedings, a letter of warning was written to him, and the offence was discontinued.
The notices of the vestry having been neglected by Mr. Peter Augustus Halahan, owner of Nos. 1 to 10, Wickham Place, application was made under the nuisances removal act to the magistrate and his orders obtained for the execution of the necessary works; these orders being also neglected and nothing being done at the expiration of the time allowed, the clerk was instructed to apply for the enforcement of the penalties provided by the twenty-seventh section. The defendant was fined thirty-six shillings and costs, and in default of payment was committed to prison.
A manuscript copy of all the reports made to the vestry by the medical officer of health during the year is sent to the metropolitan board of works with a copy of this report.