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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE
SANITARY COMMITTEE OF THE VESTRY
OF PADDINGTON.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Second Annual
Report dealing with the Vital Statistics, &c., of the Parish for the
year 1895.
1 would ask that your special attention may be given to the
paragraphs dealing with the streets, the inhabitants whereof I
caused to be enumerated at the close of 1894, and to the information
as to the housing of families afflicted with infectious
disease during the year. Taken together, the two inquiries indicate
that much good would ensue from more strenuons efforts to
control the overcrowding which unfortunately exists in certain
parts of the Parish. It will be my duty to give attention to the
subject during the current year.
The subject of checking the sale of “starvation” brands of
condensed skim milks is a national one, to which the attention
of Parliament should be directed. It is not to be expected
that infants brought up in a rough and ready manner, as only
too many are, should survive the risks of such nurture when
they are crippled by a lack of nourishment of which their
parents are not cognisant. The regulation of the manufacture
and sale of ice-cream (and other food-stuffs) will be apparent
when the paragraphs dealing with these subjects have been
read.
Factory and Workshop legislation may be said to be “marking
time.” It is probable that when the promised code is
introduced a very considerable re-arrangement of the duties now