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proposed incorporation would be to change the names of the Authorities
and the titles of their Members. Moreover, in the view of the
Vestry and of a large number of persons throughout the Metropolis,
the question of London Government was one requiring to be dealt
with in its entirety, and not by separate action or piecemeal legislation.
The Vestry accordingly passed the following resolution on the
matter at a meeting held on the 23rd February, 1897
"That a Petition be presented to the Privy Council praying,
that no Charter of Incorporation be granted to any
District of London in priority to the remaining Districts,
or without due consideration of the reform of Local
Government as a whole."
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SEWERS COMMITTEE.
Female
Inspector.
One of the first matters that came under the attention
of the Committee, was the question of the appointment of
an Inspector to visit tenement houses. The Vestry having decided
on the 16th June, 1896, to appoint a Female Inspector, the Committee
deemed it advisable before proceeding to the appointment,
to approach the Local Government Board on the question. The
Board approved the appointment of a Female Inspector, and the
matter was referred back to the Public Health Committee to obtain
applications, and to submit selected candidates to the Vestry.
Miss A. E. Elliott, of St. Helen's, was appointed, and the formal
approval of the Local Government Board has since been obtained.
Notification
of Measles.
Early in the year 1896, the Medical Officer of Health
reported that, in his opinion, measles should be a notifiable
disease. Dr. Waldo followed up this opinion by an article which
appeared under his name in the "Nineteenth Century," and also
in a report presented to the Vestry on the 14th July, 1896. A letter
from the Vestry of St. Mary, Battersea, recommending the same
course, having also been submitted to the Vestry, the whole question
was referred to the Public Health Committee for consideration and
report. The Committee carefully examined Dr. Thomson's treatise
on the control of measles, published in the Local Government Board's
Report for the year 1894-5, and came to the conclusion that "no
sanitary Authority in London would be justified in embarking in so