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Vestry and Committee Meetings.—The following is a
return of the number of meetings held during the year:—
Vestry (including 6 meetings in Committee) 28
Public Health and Sanitary Committee 24
Roads and Depot Committee 27
General Purposes and Lighting Committee 24
Finance and Audit Committee 29
Sub-Committees 126
Total 258
The return of attendances of members will be found at page 206
of this report.
Public Health and Sanitary Committee.—The duties
of this Committee are:—To enforce the provisions of the Public
Health Act 1891 and any bye-laws made thereunder (except clauses
29 to 36); to control the administration of the Adulteration Acts;
to manage the Mortuary buildings and Coroner's Court; to direct
and supervise the construction, maintenance, repair and cleansing
of all public sewers under the Vestry's control, also the public conveniences
and urinals; and to enforce the Building and Metropolis
Management Acts and Standing Orders and Regulations of the
Vestry in regard to new buildings and house drainage.
Infectious Diseases.—The Vestry declined on the 26th June
1895 to take any action on a letter from the Strand District
Board of "Works suggesting the expediency of repealing the compulsory
clauses of the Public Health Act of 1891 with regard to the
provision of temporary shelters for persons during the process of
disinfecting their dwellings, having already decided to provide such
a shelter (see last Annual Report, page 35). It was stated by the
Strand District Board that in their district the shelter provided had
not been appreciated or made use of.
The ground plan of proposed shelter, as referred to at page 36 of
the preceding Report, was forwarded to the London County Council
on the 31st August 1895, with a request that they would advise the
Vestry, before the detail drawings were prepared, as to the extent
of accommodation that should be provided, seeing that the loan to
cover the cost of the shelter would have to receive their sanction.
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