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the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee. Some of the Local Authorities
who had taken little interest in the proceedings of the previous meeting,
had since discovered the importance of the question to them, and appointed
delegates. The proceedings occupied considerable time in the general
discussion, but the resolutions were confined to the mode of procedure to
be adopted before the Council, for which the final arrangements were made.
On the Thursday following the whole of the delegates were in attendance
at the London County Council, the deputation being received by the
Main Drainage Committee, and the Parliamentary Committee, the Chairman,
the Vice-Chairman, and the Deputy-Chairman, together with the Solicitor
and the Council's Parliamentary Agent,(being present to hear the statements
of those of the deputation who had been appointed to address the meeting.
Over 100 representatives of the various Local Authorities were present to
support the statements of those delegates appointed to address the Committee
of the Council. Mr. W. F. Dewey, the Vestry Clerk of Islington,
was the first and principal speaker, being followed by Mr. Hills, of Wandsworth
; Mr. Tagg, of Camberwell ; Dr. Sykes, of St. Pancras, and others,
who ably dealt with the subject, with the gratifying result that owing to
the efforts of this Board, in thus bringing the matter to a head, the Council
has at length intimated its intention of promoting a Public Bill in Parliament
with a view of endeavouring to put the law on a sound basis with
regard to private drains.
In October last the Board appointed delegates to attend a Conference
on the subject of Bakehouses in London. The Conference was held, and
well attended by delegates, at the Vestry Hall of St. George's, Southwark,
but, owing to the action of a particular section the Conference, ended without
any practical benefit resulting therefrom.
With regard to another matter which the Sanitary Department has had
under its notice, and in which the general public are interested to a marked
degree, viz., the sale of meat in certain streets forming part of the district
under the Board's jurisdiction, it is but right to mention in this Annual
Statement that various suggestions and remarks have been made with
reference to the manner in which the Board is endeavouring to carry out
its duty for the protection of the public. It has also been broadly hinted in
Police Courts, and other places, that the Holborn District Board is at fault in
this respect, and that unwholesome meat has been allowed to be sold in the
streets adjacent to the Metropolitan Meat Market, which has been carried
away to other districts, where it has been seized and condemned. It is only
fair to the Board and its officers to set against this the fact that, although every
opportunity has been offered to the individuals who have been the means