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To the Vestry of Saint Mary, Islington.
Gentlemen,
Your Sanitary Committee report that, on February 15th,
1875, their attention was (not for the first time) specially called to
the bad condition of the Upper Cottenham Road by a deputation
from Upper Holloway, who attended their meeting of that date and
were introduced by members of your Vestry. The deputation
particularly alleged that the state of this unmade road had already
caused disease, and was in such a condition as to warrant the belief
that it was imminently dangerous even to life, and your Committee
were strenuously urged to take immediate proceedings under "The
Nuisances Removal Acts;" whereas your Medical Officer of Health
at the same time reported that, in his opinion, there existed no such
nuisance as to be injurious to health, although it was very desirable
that the road should be made.
Your Committee then resolved to view the Upper Cottenham
Road and, having met there for that purpose, they visited, on the
same occasion, the Birkbeck Road or Red Cap Lane, Upper
Durham Road, Wells Terrace, Clifton Terrace, and the field in
front of Clifton Terrace, all of which places had also been either the
subject of complaint or of public comment as being in a state more
or less likely to prove injurious to health.
Having subsequently taken into consideration both the state of
these places and their own obligations as a Sanitary Committee in
respect to them, and having had the benefit of your Vestry Clerk's
advice as to the legal powers of the Committee to take proceedings
under "The Nuisances Removal Acts," and your Medical Officer of
Health having also reported to them upon the subject in writing,
your Committee, after deliberation, resolved that, it would.be inadvisable
to take legal proceedings on the ground of nuisance, even
in the case of the Upper Cottenham Road, which was certainly, by
many degrees, in a worse condition than the other places; but
being desirous that the distinct issue raised by the deputation