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Sec. 48 contains the important provision that a newly-erected
dwelling.house must not be occupied until a certificate has been
obtained of the Sanitary Authority to the effect that a proper and
sufficient supply of water exists. This section seems to be now
more generally understood and imposes much work on the
Sanitary Department. The following sections 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
and 54, apply inter alia to water supply generally.
Sees. 55, 56 and 57 re.enact, as elsewhere stated, the provisions
of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act.
Sees. 59, 60 and 61 require the authority to make provisions
for the disinfection of clothing, &c., which provision has been
duly made by the Vestry. The subsequent sections provide that
infectious refuse shall not be treated so as to be dangerous to the
public health, and drescribe penalties on persons letting houses or
apartments in which infectious disease has occurred without
having the same properly disinfected and obtaining a certificate
thereof, which certificate is given to applicants free of charge on
application to the Sanitary Department. Other important
provisions for the prevention of the spread of infectious disease
follow in subsequent sections; but they have long been in
operation in this parish. In fact, it may be said generally that
the methods of Sanitary procedure which may have gradually
evolved in this parish during the last twenty years, have been
adopted by the framers of the Act as its basis.
Provision is made for Mortuaries and post.mortem examinations
; such has existed in Battersea for many years. The
Mortuary accommodation is, however, becoming somewhat inadequate
for the needs of this ever increasing parish, and it is proposed
to partially rebuild and enlarge the Mortuary, so as to render it,
what it was for many years—a model of what such a building
should be. Originally said to be the best arranged Mortuary in
London, other parishes, in a commendable spirit of emulation,