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having regard to the steps then being taken to secure the devotion
of the whole of the time of the Medical Officer of Health to his
duties it was not thought necessary to appoint a successor to Mr.
Fairey, and the Vestry's resolution of the 20th February 1895 (see
last Annual Report, p. 42) was accordingly rescinded at a special
meeting on the 10th July 1895.
On the 1st May 1895 the Medical Officer of Health incurred the
censure of the Vestry for having inadvertently neglected to take
steps to remove a dead body, after he had been requested by a
member of the Vestry to do so, from a room in Henshaw Street in
which another person was living.
Insanitary Areas.— The cost incurred by the Vestry in applying
for a closing order against the ten houses, Nos. 1 to 10, Little Mount
Street, referred to in the last Annual Report (p. 45), were as
follows:—Counsel's fees £10 1s. 6d.; Architect's survey £5 14s. 4d.;
total £15 15s. l0d. Full particulars of the proceedings taken in
this case will be found in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer
of Health hereto annexed (see p. 147).
Medical Officer's Report.—The London County Council having
pointed out the inconvenience occasioned by the delay of certain
Vestries in sending in their Annual Reports, which were required
for reference—more particularly the statistics contained in the
Report of the Medical Officer of Health—the Vestry on the 24th
July 1895 adopted the Standing Order printed at page 14 of this
Report, directing the Medical Officer to issue his Report separately
and send to the Council within two months of the date it became
due: such Report to be afterwards included and bound up with
the Vestry's Annual Report as heretofore.
Adulteration Acts.—The number of samples taken by the Vestry's
Sanitary Inspectors for analysis during the year was 674, and comprised
449 of milk, 166 of butter, 27 of coffee, 14 of pepper, 7 of
mustard, 10 of spirits, and 1 of lard. Proceedings for adulteration
were taken in 102 cases, for particulars and results of which see pp.
154-8 of the Report of the Medical Officer of Health hereto annexed.
District Surveyors and Sanitary Work.—In June 1895 a further
letter was received from Mr. Bernard Dicksee drawing the Vestry's