Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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by the Member giving it, and be preserved by the Vestry
Clerk.
XI.— Officers' Securities:—
First. In future, all expenses of Bonds and Securities
given by Officers or Servants holding situations
under the control of the Vestry, or its Committees,
shall be borne and paid by the individual elected
(except in special cases where ordered otherwise), and
all such Bonds and Securities shall be prepared by the
Parish Solicitors.
Second. The Securities given by the Officers and
Servants, whether now in office or hereafter to be
appointed on behalf of this Parish, shall be examined
every year, in the month of April, by the Parish Solicitors
; and, in the event of their not being in a satisfactory
state, the parties whose Securities are insufficient
shall be called upon to give fresh Securities; and the
Solicitors shall report what they have done therein, in
writing, to the Vestry.
Third. Any Officer or Servant, having given
security, shall be bound to give notice of any want or
insufficiency which shall come to his knowledge in
reference to his sureties.
XII.— That the Parish do not undertake the care of
any Footway, Roadway, Mews, or Sewer, until the Surveyor
of the Vestry has certified that the same has been properly
constructed, and his certificate has met with the approval of
the Vestry.
XIII. (Book 8, Folio 476.)— That after the Minutes
and Reports have been read, Members of this Vestry be
allowed to put a question to any Member of any Board or
Officer present or within call; but no discussion shall take
place thereon.