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The amount paid to the Medical Practitioners for furnishing
the above Certificates amounted to £58 9s. 6d. For the year
1892 the sum of £33 0s. 6d. was paid. The Vestry is recouped
for this expenditure by the Metropolitan Asylums Board (out
of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund), to which Board a
copy of each certificate is sent within 12 hours of the receipt of
the same.
REGENT'S CANAL.
The condition of that portion of the Regent's Canal which
is situated in this Parish, has formed the subject of inquiry and
discussion both by your Public Health Committee and the
London County Council, and the Medical Officer of the latter
has furnished an exhaustive Report upon the matter, confirming
the views expressed in the Report I submitted December,
1892.
In December last, in company with the Chairman of your
Public Health Committee, I attended a Conference at the
Offices of the London County Council, at which, besides
Members of the Council, Representatives of the several Local
Authorities interested in the subject were present.
The difficulties surrounding the question of taking proceedings
against the Canal Company, to compel them to cleanse
the Canal, were fully recognised by the Members of the Council
and the Representatives of the several Sanitary Authorities,
and after hearing the views of the various delegates—The
Chairman stated, that when the Sanitary Authorities had
taken steps to abate all nuisances along the banks of the
Canal, the Council would then, if applied to, see what
measures it could adopt to effect the cleansing and other
evils existing in the Water Way.
LOCAL WELLS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The following is the substance of a Report presented to the
Public Health Committee in September last, on the above
subject:—
Last October, in response to an application of the Medical Officer
of the London County Council, I furnished a list of wells situated
in this Parish, three of which were found to be supplying water for
drinking and domestic purposes. Since furnishing the list, I have
narrowly watched the returns of Infectious Disease, with the view
to ascertain if any such could be traced to the use of water obtained