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in which he pointed out the incongruity of the drainage of
new houses being under the Surveyor and his Staff, and
that of old houses under the Medical Officer and the Sanitary
Inspectors, suggesting also the advisability of all drainage
work being in future under one responsible Officer and one
responsible Department. The matter was carefully considered
by a joint Sub-committee of these two Standing
Committees (the Sewers and the Sanitary), with the result
that eventually the Vestry adopted, on November 4th, the
recommendations set forth by them, and decided that in
future all drainage work in connection with both new and
old houses should be carried out under the supervision of
the Sanitary Inspectors (the plans being previously approved
jointly by the Surveyor and the Medical Officer), and not,
as hitherto, partly under the Surveyor's, and partly under
the Medical Officer's, Staff. The Vestry also decided that
in the event of a difference of opinion arising between the
Surveyor and the Medical Officer, the matter should be
referred to a Committee, viz., if a new building, to the Sewers,
and if an existing building, to the Sanitary, Committee, for
decision. It is satisfactory to be able to report that no
difference of opinion has cropped up between the two
Officers as yet, and no appeal, therefore, been rendered
necessary to a Committee, whilst the new arrangement as
a whole is working well, and to the satisfaction and
advantage of owners of property and of the Ratepayers
of the Parish generally—the Vestry in future no longer
being placed in the invidious position of one of its
Departments being liable to find fault with the work of
another, as is the case when Inspectors have to serve
Notices on the owners of houses which have become
recently (a few months only, it may be) occupied. The
arrangement at present is that each Sanitary Inspector now