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Malins, A. Poplar Board of Works.
Alexander, F. W., l.r.c.p., m.r.c.s.,
d.p.h. (medical officer of
health) ,,
Bassett R. Hackney Yestry.
Feesey, R „
Forsaith, J. S. „
Hulland, H. „
Holmes, G. B., j.p. „
Kyffin, J. B. „
Spencer, J. „
Whittaker, T. E. ,,
wlmhurst, T. ,,
Warry, J. King, m.d., m.r.c.p d.p.h.
(medical officer of health) „
Taylor, Leo, f.c.i. (public analyst) „
and others.
Mr. Henry Hulland, Chairman of the Public Health Committee
of the Hackney Yestry, presided, and in opening the Conference
said:—In the first place I must apologise to you for not having a
better room in which to receive you, and in the next place Mr.
Chambers, the Chairman of the Hackney Vestry, has desired me to
apologise for his absence to-night. Mr. Chambers has to control the
Vestry which is now sitting, and I hope you will accept my expression
of his regret at not being able to attend here to-night. The question
that we have asked you to meet and consider is a question which
we, in Hackney, consider a very serious one, and you will agree that
any question which affects the health of a million of people is of the
greatest importance. What we really wish to do is this, to try and
bring about such a condition of things as will render the Eiver Lea.
as far as it affects Hackney and in its lower courses, more pure and
far more sanitary. We have had submitted to us from time to time,
as the Hackney Sanitary Authority, reports of our analyst, which
show that the river is not in the condition that it ought to be. We
are quite prepared to enter heartily and fully into the consideration
of any and every project and any and every plan which would prove