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housing of the working classes can be realised. Suffice it
to add that the record for Lambeth is satisfactory and one
on which the Vestry is to be congratulated. Details as to
the cases heard before the Magistrate are to be found on
pp. 121.123.
London Vestries have immense powers to reform the
dwellings of the poor.
Before leaving this subject it is a source of satisfaction to
the Medical Officer of Health to report that, though the
Duchy of Cornwall is outside the pale of the Housing of
the Working Classes Act, and, in consequence, as the
ground landlord of a large portion of Lambeth Parish might
prove troublesome in respect of any action taken under this
particular Act of Parliament, the Council of H.R.H. the
Prince of Wales have sent a written statement to him to
the effect, inter alia, that "they are at all times most
desirous of complying with the spirit of any Act of Parliament
contemplating improvements on the score of the
Public Health, or in the interests of the working classes"—
an important admission in connection with sanitary reform
in Lambeth.