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Committee advised your Vestry that it did not appear expedient at
the present time to make the necessary application to the Local
Government Board. The Committee were influenced to some extent
in coming to this decision by a statement that the Board had under
consideration the desirability of framing model regulations for the
guidance of Sanitary Authorities, the issue of which it was thought
desirable to await.
At about the same time that the Committee began to consider this
subject I had brought the provisions of the Acts under the notice of
the Society of Medical Officers of Health, which, after full consideration,
resolved (1) That the Acts are practicable; (2) That it is desirable
they should be put into operation in London and other large towns;
(3) That it is desirable to have an uniform code of regulations for
the Metropolis; and (4) That it is advisable the Society should undertake
the framing of such a code.
The Council of the Society, to which the matter was referred, requested
me to draft a code; and the draft so prepared, having been
approved by the Council, and subsequently by the Society, it was sent
to nearly two hundred medical officers of health throughout the
kingdom, suggestions by way of amendment, &c., being invited. All
such suggestions having been duly considered, the Council finally
submitted the draft, as amended, to the Society, by which it was
approved; and, in May last, the regulations were published "for the
guidance of Urban Nuisance Authorities." I brought these proposed
regulations under the notice of the Special Purposes Committee, by
which they were approved, and with a view to their being submitted
to the Vestry for adoption. But, as before stated, the Committee, on
learning to how slight an extent the 35th section of the original Act
had been carried out during the thirteen years it had been in existence,
thought it right to advise your Vestry not to proceed any further in
the matter at the present time.
WATER SUPPLY.
The water supply of Kensington is in the hands of three Companies
(West Middlesex, Chelsea, and Grand Junction), which obtain water
from the Thames above tidal influence, viz., at Hampton, Ditton, and
Molesey.