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one half the salary of every such Sanitary Inspector will, subject to the
approval of the Local Government Board, be paid by the London County
Council out of the Exchequer contribution account, in accordance with
sec. 24 of the Local Government Act, 1888 (51 and 52 Vic., s. 41), etc., the
other half, viz.: £53 10s. per annum per Inspector, being paid by the
Hackney Vestry.
The total amount therefore to be paid by the Hackney Vestry for the
nine Inspectors would then be £481 10s. per annum, showing a saving of
£268 10s.
Your Committee recommend that the necessary steps be taken for the
appointment of three additional Sanitary Inspectors and the re-appointment
of the present Inspectors in accordance with the Sanitary Officers' (London)
Order, 1891.
All of which your Committee respectfully submit.
HENRY HULLAND, Chairman.
EDWIN REYNOLDS E. WILMOT
E. B. BISHOP J. R. BARLEY
W. TAYLOR R. R1DGWAY
R. FEESEY JOHN SHEEHAN
THEOPHILUS NICHOLLS B. A. FORROW
J. H. BRANSCOMBE M. WOOLLEY
10th October, 1894.
In accordance with the Committee's recommendation, your
Vestry, on the 14th of December, 1894, increased the staff of
Inspectors to nine, the number required.
RIVER LEA.
In my report for the year 1893, I called the attention of the
Vestry to the generally impure condition of the river Lea, as it
passes through Hackney, which receives the effluents from the
Leyton and Walthamstow sewage farms. The Walthamstow Local
Board seemed to recognize the failure of their farm, by applying
early in the year 1894 to the Local Government Board for a loan,
for the purpose of extending the farm. An inquiry was held, but the
loan was not granted. The effluent remains in the same, if not
a worse, polluted state.
The necessity for the purification of this river has become more
urgent, owing to the action of the London County Council in
constructing a bathing pool on the recreation ground of the Hackney