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arrangements generally of those buildings, and I have given
him my advice on the matter.
Forms have been prepared under my direction, and with
the approval of the Sub-Committee, for the registration of
houses let in lodgings.
I asked permission from his Grace the Duke of Westminster
for the use of a sufficient part of his vacant land
near Chelsea Bridge for the purposes of a temporary
Cholera Hospital, should it have been necessary to construct
one in the autumn of 1885. This permission was, as on
the occasion of a former application in 1884, immediately
granted, but, fortunately, it was not necessary for the Parish
to avail itself of it.
Before 1885 the Parish had arranged for the removal
of non-pauper cases to the London Fever Hospital and to
the Highgate Small-Pox Hospital, by contracting to pay a
certain sum for the maintenance of such cases during their
stay in the Hospital; but in that year the Metropolitan
Asylums District Board proposed and the Parish accepted
an agreement by which the Parish contracted to pay the
sum of four guineas for each non-pauper patient removed to
a hospital under the control of the Managers. This sted
was rendered necessary by the faot that the authorities of
the London Fever Hospital gave notice that they could no
longer receive any patients sent by the Vestry.
I drew up a handbill of directions for the prevention of
summer Diarrhoea and Cholera, and it was largely distributed
throughout the Parish by direction of the Committee
of Works.
The Metropolitan Board of Works issued a new order of
Regulations as to dairies, cow-sheds, and milkshops, the most
important regulation of which was that "which requires a
purveyor of milk to discontinue keeping milk for sale in a
building in which there has been infectious or contagious
disease, until such building has been disinfected, and declared
by the Medical Officer of Health for the district to be free
from infection."
No. 3 of our Regulations for houses let in lodgings provides
that "every owner and keeper of a lodging-house, if served