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purchasable at a moderate rate. A station, moreover, has
been established by a private medical practitioner in the
Marylebone Road, for the supply of calf lymph, and at which
persons can be vaccinated direct from the calf.
SANITARY.
Committee for carrying out the Nuisances Removal
Acts.—With the view of accelerating proceedings in
cases of nuisance, your Vestry decided, in February of the
current year, to appoint the Works, Sanitary, and General
Purposes Committee, to be a Committee to receive notices,
take proceedings, and in all respects, execute the Nuisances
Removal Act, for England, 1855, and all Amending Acts.
The Committee meets for the purposes of the Acts once a
week, and notices are issued upon the immediate authority
of the Committee, which simply reports its proceedings to
your Vestry. Summonses continue to be heard by the
Justices sitting in Petty Sessions at the Vestry Hall. It
were to be desired that the Justices would place Sanitary
cases at the commencement, instead of, as heretofore, at
the end of the agenda for the day, so that the several
Inspectors might be set free early to proceed about their
ordinary work. The business rarely occupies any considerable
length of time, but on many occasions the entire staff of
Inspectors has been detained till 2 or 3 p.m., waiting for
their cases to come on. I have no doubt that the Justices
would pay every regard to an application on the subject by
your Vestry. They would also, I believe, consent to hold a
mid-monthly sitting, if requested, for hearing sanitary cases.
Their duties in this department of judicial work have increased
considerably, owing to the Cheslea Vestry and the
Fulham District Board of Works having to some extent
followed the example of your Vestry in bringing their business
before the Court. It is interesting to know that the
magistrates in the Tower Hamlets Division, have recently
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